Strategy and the Historical Mind

A Lecture by Eliot Cohen

Delivered on March 1, 2005 this lecture was the second in the 2005 Series of Thornton D. Hooper Lectures on American Strategy, established with a contribution from Bruce and Eileen Hooper on the occasion of FPRI’s 50th Anniversary.

Eliot Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advance International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. In 1982 he was commissioned in the U.S. Army Reserve and is a member of the Defense Policy Advisory Board. His books include Supreme Command: Soliders, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (2002).