About Claudia

Claudia Gilbert is a strategic analyst whose work examines the intersection of military alliances, technology, and strategic decision making. Her research focuses on how deep technical integration between allied forces shapes strategic autonomy, alliance behaviour, and the balance between cooperation and dependence in modern security partnerships.

Her professional experience spans defence capability development, multi-domain networks, and alliance interoperability planning.

Her future doctoral research explores what she describes as the “Interoperability Trap”: the idea that while technological integration strengthens coalition effectiveness, it may also constrain strategic autonomy by embedding states within shared operational architectures.

Claudia holds postgraduate qualifications in networking, cloud computing, cyber security, law, and professional accounting, and is admitted as a lawyer in New South Wales. She is also currently study a degree in artificial intelligence.

Her work aims to bridge the gap between technical military systems and the strategic choices they enable… or constrain… for states.