Nathan K. Finney is a senior Army Strategist (FA59) currently serving as the Director of the Commander’s Initiatives Group at U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command. Nate recently completed a tour at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command where he served as a special assistant to Commander 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 an adjunct professor at the Duke Sanford School; 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; an affiliate at the College of William & Mary's Whole of Government Center; 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 Chair of the Advisory Board), 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, the editor and author of On Strategy: A Primer, and author of Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War.
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