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A. Cohen (ed.),The New Citizen Armies(2009).Colonel Dr John Andreas Olsen is the dean of the Norwegian Defence
University College, head of the Division for Strategic Studies at the Norwegian
Defence Command and Staff College, and visiting professor of operational art
and tactics at the Swedish National Defence College. A serving officer, he is a
graduate of the Norwegian Defence College (2008) and the German Command
and Staff College (2005). Recent assignments include tours as the Norwegian
liaison officer to the German Operational Command in Potsdam, as the military
assistant to the attache ́in Berlin, and as a tutor and researcher at the Norwegian
Air Force Academy. Olsen has a doctorate in History and International Relations
from De Montfort University, a master’s degree in Contemporary British Litera-
ture and Politics from the University of Warwick, a master’s degree in English
(cand. philol.), and an engineering degree in Electronics from the University of
Trondheim. He is the author ofJohn Warden and the Renaissance in American Air
Power(2007) andStrategic Air Power in Desert Storm(2003), and has written
several editorials on military operations and air power. He is the editor ofOn New
Wars(2006) andA History of Air Warfare(2010).
Dr Andrew Scobellis senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation in
Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was a tenured faculty member for three years
at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Affairs at Texas A&M
University in College Station, Texas. From 1999 until 2007, he was associate
research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College,
and adjunct professor of political science at Dickinson College, both in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania. Scobell earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia Univer-
sity. He is the author ofChina’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and
the Long March(2003), and co-author (with Andrew J. Nathan) ofChina’s Search
for Security(Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2011).
Professor Dennis Showalteris professor of history at Colorado College. He
earned his MA and doctorate at the University of Minnesota, has been visiting
professor at the US Air Force Academy, the US Military Academy, and the Marine
Corps University, and was the president of the Society of Military History from
1997 to 2001. He has held numerous fellowships, served on a number of boards,
and has since 1993 been the joint editor of the journalWar in History. Professor
Showalter has an extensive list of publications and several forthcoming books. He
is the author ofRailroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology and the Unification of
Germany(1975, repr. in 2007),The Wars of Frederick the Great(1996),The Wars
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