Dr. Michael E. Lynch is a historian and retired U.S. Army logistics officer, serving as Research Professor of North American National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. He holds a PhD from Temple University. His publications include “Landpower, Homeland Defense, and Forward Stationing in the Indo-Pacific” in Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (July 2024), and a co-edited volume (w/Howard Coombs) titled, International Competition in the High North (US Army War College, 2024). His other published works include: Come As You Are War: US Readiness for the Korean War (USAHEC, 2019) and Edward M. Almond and the US Army: From the 92nd Infantry Division to X Corps (Kentucky, 2019), which received the Army Historical Foundation’s 2019 Distinguished Writing Award for Biography.