Gerrit Wissler

Captain Gerrit Wissler is an infantry officer in the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) and a lecturer in security policy and IR at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College (Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr) in Hamburg. He is a PhD candidate in political science at the Helmut Schmidt University.

His research examines the intersection of deterrence theory, emerging and disruptive technologies, and military simulation, with a specialized focus on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) adoption of AI-enabled wargaming and combat simulations.