Commander Charles Fuehrer is the US Navy 2024-2025 Fellow at the MIT Security Studies Program. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology, earning a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and was commissioned through the Naval ROTC program in 2010. He also attended the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he earned a Master’s in Business Administration and completed The Naval War College non-resident course for Joint Professional Military Education Phase I. CDR Fuehrer’s sea duty assignments include: USS Laboon (DDG 58) as Strike Warfare Officer and Force Protection Officer, USS Lake Erie (CG 70) as Damage Control Assistant, USS Halsey (DDG 97) as Combat Systems Officer, and USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) as Plants and Tactics Officer. His shore assignments include Naval Postgraduate School, Officer Training Command Newport and a GSA assignment as the NAVCENT TLAM LNO at Combined Joint Operations Center – Jordan (CJOC-J).

Prior to joining SSP, he was the N3 Operations Officer at Destroyer Squadron FIVE ZERO forward deployed out of Manama, Bahrain where he managed the operational schedule and tasking for six U.S. Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters and all independently deployed cruisers, destroyers, and littoral combat ships. CDR Fuehrer spent two months as the Director of Operations for Combined Maritime Forces Operation PROSPERITY GUARDIAN embarked on a U.S. DDG in the Red Sea.