Dr. Gregory A. Daddis is one of the most authoritative contemporary U.S. military historians and a leading expert on the Cold War and the Vietnam War. A retired U.S. Army colonel with 26 years of service, Dr. Daddis combines genuine strategic experience with an outstanding academic career. He currently holds the prestigious Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University and is the author of numerous best-selling books for Oxford and Cambridge University Press, including his latest book, “Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War Since 1945”.  Former director of the Center for War and Society and a professor at West Point and Oxford, his research offers a  critical analysis of the relationship between American foreign policy, culture, and the use of military force from 1945 to the present.