Military History Experts
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
My scholarly work has been about the complicated consequences of conflict. My first book, Palestinian Village Histories, focuses on memory and history among Palestinians made refugees in the course of the 1948 War and the creation of Israel. I collected and examined over 120 village books published by Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed, which I combined with interviews and...
Scholar in Residence, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)
Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Erin Mahan is chief historian of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She previously served as associate research fellow at Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. She is also an adjunct research historian for the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. From 2004-2008, she was chief of the then Division of...
Military pensioner with the Service of Protection and Guard, Bucharest
His research focuses on the Cold War and military history, the security and foreign policy of Romania and the history of international relations. He was one of the associate researchers within the project coordinated by Professor Vojtech Mastny (“The Legacy of the Soviet Bloc-India Relations and US-Indian Strategic Partnership”, The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security, 2007-2010).
John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution
Jonathan D. Pollack is a senior fellow with the John L. Thornton China Center. Before his appointment at Brookings, he was professor of Asian and Pacific Studies and chairman of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the Naval War College. He is also a research associate in the National Asia Research Program of the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University
Non-resident Scholar, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
adjunct staff, RAND Corporation
Stephen Tankel joined the faculty at American University last year as an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs. He is also a non-resident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an adjunct staff member at the RAND Corporation.Stephen’s research focuses on political and military affairs in South Asia, terrorism, and insur...
Contributing Editor, AOL Defense
Richard Whittle is a writer specializing in military affairs and author of The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey (Simon & Schuster, 2010). Now at work on a history of the Predator, the first modern armed drone, Whittle is available to lecture or conduct interviews on all aspects of “The Drone Revolution.” In 2011, he authored a paper for the Mitchell In...
former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz spent more than three decades as a public servant, ambassador and educator, including 24 years in government service under seven U.S. presidents. In addition to three senior positions with the State Department, as Director of Policy Planning, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, he also served in the Defense Department during t...