Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies; Director of the Strategic Studies Program; Director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies
Expertise Geographic Areas
Afghanistan | Pakistan | Western Europe | Middle East | Iran | Iraq Issues
diplomacy | international relations | irregular warfare | military history | military power and strategy | strategic and security issues Background and Education
Served as counselor of the U.S. Department of State; former professor at Harvard University and the U.S. Naval War College; served on the Policy Planning Staff of the secretary of Defense and directed the U.S. Air Force's Gulf War Air Power Survey; member of the Defense Policy Board and other governmental and private advisory committees; Ph.D., political science, Harvard University Publications
Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that made the American Way of War (forthcoming, 2011); Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Wartime Leadership (2002), which won the first Huntington Prize, administered by the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; War Over Kosovo, co-editor (2001); Knives, Tanks & Missiles: Israel’s Security Revolution, co-author (1998); Revolution in Warfare? Air Power in the Gulf, co-author (1995); Gulf War Air Power Survey, editor (1993); Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in 20th Century Warfare, co-author (1990); Citizens and Soldiers: The Dilemmas of Military Service (1985); Commandos and Politicians: Elite Military Units in Modern Democracies (1978); numerous articles | 
