Edward M. Coffman, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of The War to End All Wars and The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898. He is currently working on a social history of the American Army from 1898 to 1941.
David C. Fuquea graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1981 and is now serving on active duty as the executive officer for Marine Battalion Landing Team 1/2 currently deployed to the Mediterranean. He earned a master's degree in military history from Duke University in 1992 and was recognized as the outstanding military educator at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1995.
Faris R. Kirkland (Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, retired) holds an A.B. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College. He has published extensively in historical and professional journals on leadership and cohesion in the French and American armed forces.
John A. Lynn is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1973. His monographs include Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94 (Westview Press, 1996 and 1984). In addition, he has edited numerous works on warfare.
Michael A. Palmer is an associate professor at East Carolina University, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of History and the Program in Maritime History. He is the author of several books on naval and military history. He is currently completing a history of naval command and control since the sixteenth century.