About
AT A GLANCE:
An Army Strategist currently serving at U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command. He previously
served at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Army Pacific in Hawaii, as well as tours
in Washington, D.C., Afghanistan, and Iraq.
RESEARCH AREAS:
- Strategy
- Military History
- Political Economy
- American Political Development
- First World War
- Cold War Taiwan
BIOGRAPHY:
Nate is a founder and former president of the (and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Advisory Board), as well as a founder
of and the . He is a managing editor at the , on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Military History, a senior mentor
for the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) at the College of William
& Mary, an affiliate at the , a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council鈥檚 Indo-Pacific Security Initiative,
a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Duke University American Grand Strategy Program,
a Non-Resident Adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Forum, and a member of the . Nate was a Visiting Fellow at the and a Non-Resident Fellow at the . He is the co-editor and author of the book , the editor and author of , and published his most recent book, , with
Cornell University Press. Nate is currently researching a new book focused on Cold War Taiwan.
Nate earned a Ph.D. in History from Duke University in 2022 while also serving as a . Previously, he received master鈥檚 degrees in Public Administration from Harvard University and the University of Kansas, and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books and Book Chapters:
- editor and author, United States Naval Institute Press, October 2018.
- , editor and author, U.S. Army Press, July 2020.
- 鈥淭he Profession of Arms,鈥 in Katherine Carroll and William B. Hickman, eds., Understanding the U.S. Military (New York: Routledge, 2022).
- , author (Cornell University Press, 2025)
- 鈥溾楾o Render Effective Service鈥: The Associational State, the North Carolina Council
of Defense, and U.S. Military Conscription for the First World War,鈥 in Amy Rutenberg,
ed., Conscription in the Global Twentieth Century (University Press of Kansas, 2026).
Book Project (research phase): The United States and Taiwan in the Cold War
Articles and Reports:
Army Magazine, January 2010.
Small Wars Journal, 26 September 2010.
PRISM, Volume 2, Number 1, November 2010.
Military Review, January/February 2011.
Joint Forces Quarterly, July 2011.
Canadian Military Journal, July 2011.
Proceedings, July 2011.
Military Review, September 2011.
Infinity Journal, 31 October 2012.
Military Review, 1 November 2012.
Diplomatic Courier, 19 January 2013.
Infinity Journal, Volume 3, Issue No. 3, Summer 2013, pages 13-16.
War on the Rocks, 21 October 2013.
The Journal of Military Operations, 20 January 2014.
Parameters, January 2014.
Infinity Journal, The Strategy Bridge Special Edition, March 2014, pages 22-25.
The Citizen, 28 April 2014.
Military Review, July-August 2014, pages 44-49.
Cicero Magazine, 25 November 2014.
Asides, February 2015.
The Strategy Bridge, August 2015.
Infinity Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1, Fall 2015, pages 30-32.
Consequence Magazine, March 2016.
The Strategy Bridge, December 2016.
The Modern War Institute, 3 February 2017.
The Strategist, 20 July 2017.
The Strategist, 14 September 2017.
The Strategist, 11 September 2017.
The Australian, 1 December 2017; also found at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Centre of Gravity report, Australian National University, July 2020.
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2023, pages
114鈥142.
Military Review, Special Edition, September 2024.
Fletcher Security Review, Volume 12, Number 1, 2025 Edition.
in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute
Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and
Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universit盲t Berlin, Berlin 2025-11-26.
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