Past Events

Sarah Paine – The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War – May 25, 2017

Paul Rahe – Grand Strategy of Sparta – May 19, 2017

Juan Zarate – Treasury’s Wars – May 15, 2017

Christopher Goscha – Vietnam: A New History – May 9, 2017

William Inboden – Reforming American Power: Civilian National Security Institutions – May 1, 2017

Samuel Watson – Andrew Jackson and Civil-Military Relations – April 28, 2017

Jennifer Keene – The Current State of Military History – April 24, 2017

Cathal J. Nolan – The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost – April 11, 2017

Edward Lengel – WWI Centennial: Why World War I Still Matters – April 6, 2017

Dr. John Maurer – WWI Centennial: Strategy and Policy – April 6, 2017

Michael Nieberg – WWI Centennial: The Path to War – April 6, 2017

Michael Green – By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 – March 30, 2017

Anna Simons – Women in Combat Units – March 27, 2017

John Walters – Interagency Collaboration on Colombia – March 21, 2017

Thomas Schwartz – The Foreign Policy of Nixon and Kissinger – March 16, 2017

Michael Auslin – The End of the Asian Century – March 8, 2017

Francis Gavin – Rethinking the History of the Nuclear Age – February 28, 2017

Ted Bromund – Transatlantic Security in Historical Context – February 16, 2017

Mackubin Owens – The History of U.S. Civil-Military Relations – February 9, 2017

Jakub Grygiel – Repairing America’s Alliances – January 18, 2017

JP Clark – Preparing for War – January 17, 2017

William Hitchcock and Melvyn Leffler – The First Year Project – December 14, 2016

Serhii Plokhy – The Gates of Europe – December 13, 2016

Michael Pillsbury – The Hundred-Year Marathon – December 8, 2016

James Lacey – Great Strategic Rivalries – December 6, 2016

Barry Strauss – The War for Empire: Rome Versus Carthage – December 5, 2016

H.R. McMaster – Strategy, Policy and History – November 30, 2016

Max Boot – Lessons of the Obama Administration – November 30, 2016

Peter Mansoor – Lessons of the George W. Bush Administration – November 30, 2016

Mark R. Jacobson – Lessons of the Carter Administration – November 30, 2016

Thomas Mahnken – Containment: Myth and Metaphor – November 17, 2016

John Hall – To Starve an Army: How Great Power Armies Respond to Austerity – November 4, 2016

Ben Jones – The Jedburghs and Unconventional Warfare – October 28, 2016

Andrew Roberts – Brexit in the Context of European History – October 26, 2016

Charles Edel – John Quincy Adams and Grand Strategy – October 19, 2016

Hal Brands – Making the Unipolar Moment – October 11, 2016

Williamson Murray – Military Innovation and Military Culture – October 3, 2016

Jeremi Suri – “History and Foreign Policy: Making the Relationship Work” – September 29, 2016

Brian Linn – Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield - With the OSD Historical Office and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments - September 28, 2016