Luke Mannion is a national security professional, policy scholar, and author whose work bridges the fields of defense strategy, public policy, and faith. His career reflects a commitment to strengthening national defense through moral clarity, technological innovation, and strategic foresight.

A U.S. Marine Corps Officer, Luke has served in both artillery and civil affairs capacities, supporting joint and combined operations. His experience spans operational planning, interagency coordination, acquisition strategy, and policy formulation. In his current role, he works closely with the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to align future force design and capability requirements with evolving security realities. His leadership centers on balancing deterrence, restraint, and operational agility within the framework of just war theory and constitutional order.

Luke’s academic scholarship focuses on the intersection of religion, law, and security policy. As a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy, his research explores how Judeo-Christian principles and natural law inform both domestic governance and national defense. His work argues that the preservation of liberty and justice depends on recognition of a transcendent moral order, and that both domestic policy and the use of force abroad must remain accountable to objective moral truth. His writing engages classical thinkers such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Hooker, alongside modern theorists like Mahan, Corbett, and Clausewitz, to examine how moral philosophy underpins the logic of statecraft and strategy.

Beyond academia and defense policy, Luke is an accomplished author and creator. His nonfiction works include From Idea to Reality: The Ultimate Prompting Guide for Generative AI, a practical manual on the intersection of creativity and artificial intelligence, and Foundations of the West, an ongoing series tracing the moral and intellectual pillars of Western civilization through the heritage of Israel, Greece, and Rome. He is also developing Shadow Concord, a geopolitical thriller series exploring faith, power, and loyalty in a world of shifting alliances and competing moral visions.

Through his companies, PromptForgeX and Hanover Creations, Luke develops educational and digital products that reflect his commitment to principled creativity and the integration of technology with human purpose. His ventures span instructional publishing, AI literacy, homeschool education tools, and public writing on leadership, ethics, and strategic thought. He also contributes essays and commentary on policy, culture, and strategy across professional and public platforms, including the U.S. Naval Institute and Marine Corps Gazette.

At the heart of all his work is a consistent conviction: that order, liberty, and security cannot be sustained by power alone, but by fidelity to truth. Whether in policy, scholarship, or art, Luke seeks to recover and defend the moral architecture of the West, an architecture grounded in faith, reason, and the belief that human governance must remain accountable to divine law.