Notes on Contributors
Dr Antulio J. Echevarria IIis associate professor and the director of research at
the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), US Army War College. He graduated from
the US Military Academy in 1981, was commissioned as an armour officer, and
held a variety of command and staff assignments in Germany and the United
States prior to his retirement at the rank of lieutenant colonel. Dr Echevarria is a
graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College and the Army War
College; he holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in History from Princeton University. He
is the author ofAfter Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers before the Great War
(2001),Imagining Future War(2007), andClausewitz and Contemporary War
(2007). He has published articles and essays in a number of scholarly and profes-
sional journals, including monographs, such as ‘Toward an American Way of
War’ (2004), ‘Fourth-Generation War and Other Myths’ (2005), ‘Challenging
Transformation’s Cliche ́s’ (2007), and ‘Wars of Ideas and the War of Ideas’ (2008)
for SSI. He has also lectured widely, both nationally and internationally, and has
contributed to several book chapters.
Dr Jacob W. Kippis adjunct professor of Russian Military History at the
University of Kansas. In 2009, he retired from government service as Deputy
Director of the School of Advanced Military Studies of the US Army, a post he
held from 2006 to 2009. He received his MA and Ph.D. in History from Penn-
sylvania State University, taught Russian and military history at Kansas State
University from 1971 to 1985, joined the Soviet Army Studies Office as a senior
analyst in 1986, and became the director of the Foreign Military Studies Office in
- He is the author of a large number of articles and monographs on Soviet
and Russian military history, operations, and doctrine. He is the editor ofCentral
European Security Concerns(1993),V. K. Triandafillov’s ‘The Nature of Operations
of Contemporary Armies’(1994), andGeneral Makhmut Gareev’s ‘If War Comes
Tomorrow?’(1998).
Dr Avi Koberearned his doctorate at the Hebrew University and is senior
lecturer in political studies at Bar-Ilan University and senior research associate at
the Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA). His main areas of research
are military theory and doctrine, Arab–Israeli wars, and low-intensity conflicts.
Dr Kober is the author ofCoalition Defection: The Discussion of Arab Anti-Israel
Coalitions in War and Peace(2002) andIsrael’s Wars of Attrition: Attrition
Challenges to Democratic States(2009). His recent publications also include
‘Israeli Military Thinking as Reflected in Ma’arachot Articles, 1948–2000’,
Armed Forces and Society, vol. 30, no. 1 (Fall 2003); ‘FromBlitzkriegto Attrition:
Israel’s Attrition Strategy and Staying Power’,Small Wars and Insurgencies, vol. 16,
no. 2 (2005); ‘Does the Iraq War Represent a Phase Change in Warfare?’Defense