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Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

C.V. Starr Distinguished Visitor - Class of Spring 2006


Eliot Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, and is founding director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies there. His books include Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime, and, with John Gooch, Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War. He directed the US Air Force’s official multi-volume study of the 1991 Gulf War, the Gulf War Air Power Survey, and has served in a variety of advisory capacities to the Department of Defense.

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