Nathan K. Finney is an Army Strategist (FA59) currently serving as a special assistant to the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in the Commander’s Action Group.
Nate earned a Ph.D. in History at Duke University in 2022 while also serving as a Goodpaster Scholar. Previously, he received master’s degrees in Public Administration from Harvard University and the University of Kansas, and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Nate’s research focuses on national security decision-making, strategy, civil-military relations, military policy, mobilization, and war. His book, Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War, explores the creation, structure, activities, and impact of a key institution in the mobilization of the United States for the First World War, and ultimately the nature of American governance during wartime.
Nate is a non-resident research fellow at The Duke Program in American Grand Strategy; a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative; managing editor at the British Journal for Military History; a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal for Military History; a senior mentor for the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) at the College of William & Mary; and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a founder of three non-profits - The Strategy Bridge, the Military Writers Guild (and currently serving as the president), and the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum - and was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. Nate is the co-editor and author of the book Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics, and the editor and author of On Strategy: A Primer.
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