Lawrence Kaplan
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Editor, World Affairs, Virginia

David Rubenstein Distinguished Visitor - Class of Spring 2008

Lawrence Kaplan is the editor of World Affairs and a former senior editor at the New Republic, where he wrote about US foreign policy and international affairs. A graduate of Columbia University, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Kaplan contributes foreign policy pieces to Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, and Washington Post, among other publications. Before joining the New Republic, he was executive editor of the National Interest, the foreign policy journal published by Irving Kristol.

Project Description

The Colonels' War (a history)

Kaplan used his time at the American Academy to continue work on his new book, The Colonel’s War. Drawing on his experiences covering the war in Iraq, he offers a hard look at the changing landscape of American warfare through in-depth biographies of four current brigade commanders in the US Army. “The story of their intertwined careers,” he writes, “will offer a glimpse of an officer corps in a turbulent era, culminating in their vastly different command styles in Iraq.” Part of this project was published in the Berlin Journal in 2008.

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