American Generals

Arthur Herman is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of its Quantum Alliance Initiative, where he works on quantum computing and related quantum information technology. He received his Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Herman has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, Catholic University, George Mason University, and the University of the South. He writes regularly for Commentary, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, Mosaic, Nikkei Asian Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed An Empire and Forged Our Age—which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009—1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder, and Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior. Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quick-witted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and designing, cap

Nathaniel Philbrick is an author and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. He earned his B.A. from Brown University and his M.A. from Duke University. Mr. Philbrick is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, the William Bradford Award from the Pilgrim Society, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He is the author of numerous books, including In the Heart of the Sea—which won a National Book Award for nonfiction and was the basis of the 2015 movie of the same name—The Last Stand: Custer Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn, and, most recently, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown. Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quick-witted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and designing, capable of both caution and surprise,

Allen C. Guelzo is the senior research scholar in the Council of the Humanities and director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Dr. Guelzo earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In September 2005, he was nominated by President Bush to the National Council on the Humanities. His articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of several books, including Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quick-witted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and designing, capable of both caution and surprise, lavish and rapa

Bradley J. Birzer is the Russell Amos Kirk Professor in American Studies at Hillsdale College. He earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. He serves on the boards of the Free Enterprise Institute and the Center for Cultural Renewal. He also serves as fellow or scholar at the Foundation for Economic Education, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the McConnell Center, and the Center for Economic Personalism. He has written for numerous publications, including the Imaginative Conservative, a site he co-founded, Ignatius Insight, National Review, and Catholic World Report. He is the author of several books, including J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth, American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll, and In Defense of Andrew Jackson. Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quick-witted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and design

Victor Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College, is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno. He earned his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University. In 2007, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and in 2008, he received the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He has written for numerous publications, including the Claremont Review of Books, The New Criterion, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War and The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quick-witted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and designing,