The American Way of War: A History of Strategic Transformations

A Lecture by James Kurth

Delivered on February 3, 2005 this lecture was the first in the 2005 Series of Thornton D. Hooper Lectures on American Strategy, established with a contribution from Bruce and Eileen Hooper as part of FPRI’s 50th Anniversary Celebration.

James Kurth is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he co-chairs FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West, chairs FPRI’s Study Group on America and the West, and serves as Editor of Orbis. He is also the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College.


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