Shikhar Chaturvedi is a Junior Researcher at TSM, where he supports the Arms Backlog project and contributes to the Weekly Taiwan Arms Tracker. His previously published research spans countering Chinese influence in critical minerals supply chains, Iranian strategic behavior, and illicit drug-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Shikhar is a senior at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. His current research interests lie in irregular warfare, information operations, and cognition as tools of statecraft.