BIO

J.P. Clark is the General Maxwell D. Taylor Chair of the Military Profession and an associate professor of strategy in the Basic Strategic Art Program, the qualification course for new Army Strategists. He is also the editor-in-chief of War Room, the Army War College’s on-line journal.

A retired colonel, J.P. served for twenty-six years as an armor officer and strategist. As a strategist, he served on the personal staffs of the Secretary of the Army and the British Chief of the General Staff, as the Army’s chief of joint concepts, the director of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute, and as the chief of the Strategy Division with the Army G-35 in the Pentagon. He has served as a lead author for a number of government documents, including the Joint Concept for Integrated Campaigning, the Competition Continuum joint doctrine note, and the Army in Multi-Domain Operations, 2028. During his final tour in the Pentagon he was the army’s representative on the National Defense Strategy Core Development Team and to the National Miliary Strategy Working Group.

J.P. holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in history from Duke University, an M.S.S. from the Army War College, and a B.S. in Russian and German from West Point. He is the author of Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern US Army, 1815-1917 and is currently working on a history of U.S. military strategy in the Pacific from 1898 to 1941.

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