Hybrid Warfare

Williamson Murray is Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio State University. At present he is a defense consultant and commentator on historical and military subjects in Washington. He is the author of War, Strategy, and Military Effectiveness and Military Adaptation in War (both Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is co-editor of numerous books on military and international history, including The Shaping of Grand Strategy (with Richard Sinnreich and James Lacey, Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Making of Peace (with James Lacey, Cambridge University Press, 2008), The Past as Prologue (with Richard Hart Sinnreich, Cambridge University Press, 2006), The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 (with MacGregor Knox, Cambridge University Press, 2001), Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (with Allan R. Millett, Cambridge University Press, 1996) and The Making of Strategy (with Alvin Bernstein and MacGregor Knox, Cambridge University Press, 1994). Peter Mansoor is the General Raymond E. Mason, Jr Chair of Military History at Ohio State University. He assumed this position in 2008 after a twenty-six-year career in the United States Army that culminated in his service in Iraq as the executive officer to General David Petraeus, the commanding general of Multi-National Force in Iraq. He is the author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945, which was awarded the Society for Military History's distinguished book award and the Army Historical Society's distinguished book award in 2000. He also wrote a memoir titled Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (2008), which was awarded the Ohioana Library Association distinguished book award.