About
AT A GLANCE:
William P. Harris Chair of Military History and director of the Center for Military
History and Strategy at Hillsdale College
RESEARCH AREAS:
• National Security Strategy
• Military Strategy
• Military History
• GloGovernmental Corruption
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Mark Moyar is the William P. Harris Chair of Military History and director of the Center for
Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College. From 2018 to 2019, he served as
the Director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation at USAID, and previously
served as the Director of the Project on Military and Diplomatic History at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Dr. Moyar is the author
of eight books, of which the newest is Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy
Sabotaged the Trump Presidency. His articles have appeared in the New York Times,
the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. He
holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Cambridge.
PUBLICATIONS:
Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency (New York: Encounter Books, 2024).
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 (New York: Encounter Books, 2023).
Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces (New York: Basic Books, 2017).
Aid for Elites: Building Partners and Ending Poverty with Human Capital (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military
Amateurism have Imperiled America (New York: Threshold, 2015).
A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009; Dari edition published by NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan
in 2010).
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2006).
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam, (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997; new edition, Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2007).
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