Moshe Gershovich earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995 and is currently serving as a visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This article is based on a presentation he made at the 1991 conference of the Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America in Washington, D.C.
Mark Grimsley, an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, concerns himself primarily with the cultural and psychological dimensions of military history. He is the author of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 (1995) and the Civil War chapters of Warfare in the Western World, the U.S. Military Academy textbook.
George F. Hofmann is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Cincinnati who served in the U.S. Army (Armor). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. His most recent publications include Doctrine, Tank Technology, and Execution: I. A. Khalepskii and the Red Army's Fulfillment of Deep Offensive Operations, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, June 1996.
Nicholas A. Lambert received his doctorate from Oxford University. He is the author of Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, which is to be published later this year by the University of South Carolina Press. In 1996 he won a Moncado Prize from the Society of Military History for "Admiral Sir John Fisher and the Concept of Flotilla Defense, 1904-1909," JMH 59 (October 1995): 639-60.
Erik Lund completed a B.SC. in physics in 1989, and defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "The Generation of 1683: Knowledge and War in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, 1648-1741," in Toronto in February of 1997. He is currently working on a comparison of the strategic influence of the substructural economy in the War of the Spanish Succession and the Second World War.
Donald E. Shepardson received his bachelor s degree from Eastern Illinois University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at the University of Northern Iowa since 1970, and is the author of Rosa Luxemburg and the Noble Dream, as well as several articles in the fields of European and U.S. diplomatic history.
John Lawrence Tone is associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He is the author of The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain. He is currently writing a history of the Cuban wars of 1895-98.
John Willoughby is an associate professor of economics at American University in Washington, D.C. He received his doctorate in economics at the University of California at Berkeley and is currently studying the impact on American society of America s rise in global influence.