Joshua Mast

FDD sponsors educational opportunities for mid-career U.S. national security professionals. Alumni of these programs are not FDD employees and join FDD’s National Security Network (NSN).

When he joined NSN, Joshua Mast was a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps serving as the Marine Representative at the Center for Law and Military Operations, located at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (U.S. Army), Charlottesville, VA. Joshua grew up in Orlando, FL, and graduated from Liberty University, in Lynchburg, VA with a BS in Finance in 2008. In 2010, he completed the Platoon Leader’s Course-Combined, and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps In 2013, First Lieutenant Mast graduated from Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, VA and received his J.D. In 2014, he was admitted to the State Bar of Virginia and received orders to active duty. From April 2015-July 2018, he was assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA, where he served as a Civil Law Attorney and Trial Counsel. From 2015-2018, Joshua was also assigned as the Installation Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (SAUSA), with the Office of the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, CA. In August 2018, he assumed his current assignment, and has become Collateral Damage Estimation (CDE) qualified and observed the Joint Targeting Process at various Operational Headquarters in the CENTCOM AO in the fall of 2018. His portfolio responsibilities at CLAMO includes targeting, CDE, and civilian casualty response.