Arturo Contreras Polgatti is the chairman of security and defense studies at Academia Nacional de Estudios Políticos y Estratégicos (ANEPE), Chile. He is a retired colonel of the Chilean Army, a staff officer, and professor in military history and strategy at the Universidad de Santiago. Contreras holds a Master’s in Security and Defense from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master’s in Military Sciences from the Chilean Army War Academ, and a PhD in American Studies with specialization in International Relations from Universidad de Santiago de Chile.