- HI 301/302: History of the Military Art
- HI 385: War and Its Theorists
- HI 395: The Civil War Era
- LD 720: The American Military Experience and the United States Military Academy
Education
- United States Military Academy--B.S. 1982
- Rice University--M.A. in History, 1991
- Rice University-- PhD. in History, 1996
Books:
Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars (New York: The Free Press, forthcoming in January 2011), Editor War Termination: The Proceedings of the War Termination Conference at the United States Military Academy, West Point, 21 June 2010 (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2010), General Editor The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession (Texas A&M University Press, 2000)
Articles:
“Out of Order: Strengthening the Political-Military Relationship,” Foreign Affairs Vol. 89, No. 5, (September-October 2010). The Army Officers’ Professional Ethic: Past, Present, and Future, Professional Ethics Monograph Series, Volume 2 (Strategic Studies Institute, February 2010). “A Broken Dialogue: Rumsfeld, Shinseki, and Civil-Military Tension,” in American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era, Suzanne C. Nielsen and Don M. Snider, eds. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). “The Stuff of Tragedy: Shinseki’s Reply to Levin,” Armed Forces & Society, Vol 34, No. 3 (April 2008) “Root, Miles, and Carter: Political-Cultural Expertise and an Earlier Army Transformation,” in The Future of the Army Profession, revised and expanded second edition. Edited by Lloyd J. Matthews. (McGraw-Hill Custom Publishing, 2005) “The Soldier and Congress,” Military Review, March-April 1999, 65-68, with Christopher P. Gibson.
- Military History
- 19th Century American History
- British History
- U.S. Southern History