Dr. Michael E. Lynch is Research Associate Professor of National Security at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He has served as a Department of the Army Civilian since 2005, following retirement from the U.S. Army as a logistics officer. He holds a PhD in History from Temple University, an MA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BA from East Tennessee State University.

His recent publications include “From the Last Frontier to the Final Frontier: The Polar Regions and Space Security,” Space and Defense Journal (AUG 2025), and  “Landpower, Homeland Defense, and Defending Forward in US Indo-Pacific Command,” (with Brennan Deveraux) Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (JUL 2024). He previously edited International Competition in the High North, Kingston, ON: Kingston Consortium on International Security, 2024. His book, Edward M. Almond and the US Army: From the 92nd Infantry Division to X Corps (University Press of Kentucky, 2019), received the 2019 Distinguished Writing Award for Biography from the Army Historical Foundation. Forthcoming publications include Beyond Capacity: Addressing the Mass Casualty Challenge in US Military and Civilian Health Care (editor) (US Army War College Press, 2026), and “MacArthur’s Bold Gamble: The Landing at Inchon, September 1950” in Gregory Fremont-Barnes, ed: Seaborne Assault: Studies in Modern Amphibious Warfare (Naval Institute Press, 2026).