J.P. Clark is a historian, educator, and strategist.
Historian
J.P. is the author of Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917 (Harvard University Press, 2017), which was hailed as the “best study of the U.S. Army before World War I in print” in the Journal of Military History. Learn more here.
The working title of his next project is Acts of Madness: U.S. Military Strategy in the Pacific, 1898-1941 (under contract with University Press of Kansas). Get a glimpse of “history in the making” to include peeks of some of the most surprising documents unearthed in his research here.
educator
J.P. is an associate professor of strategy at the U.S. Army War College. He teaches in the Basic Strategic Art Program, the qualification course for new army strategists (Functional Area 59). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Army War College’s on-line journal, War Room.
strategist
J.P. has years of experience advising senior civilian and military officials in the Pentagon and British of Ministry of Defence. During his final tour in the Pentagon, he was the chief of the Strategy Division within the Army G-35 (Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate.) He has also served as the lead author for a number of government documents. J.P. is the co-author of Striking the Balance: U.S. Army Force Posture in Europe, 2028 (Army War College Press, 2020) and “Practical Strategists: The Perspective and Craft of the General Staff Officer,” in Strategy: A Primer, edited by Nathan K. Finney. See some of his other work here.
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He can be reached at jpclark@jpclark.works.