https://davekieran.com/work daily 0.75 2019-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1504661585147-IKE70XAEJU5MDPP25P84/DK+Headshot.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1561407291658-VRM43XMYPYVN323UWGDR/1435086482Kazin666.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1561406807246-P0D4ITK58LVNEZEGSY8L/800px-MQ-1_Predator_unmanned_aircraft.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1561406961722-QV78VV4G055PYSD7SCZY/1435086482Kazin666.jpg Home “Demonstration by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) demanding "universal, unconditional amenesty" for veterans who served during the Vietnam era in front of the Justice Department in Washington DC (10th St. & Pennsylvania Ave. NW) on July 3, 1974.” This image was scanned from original negatives. (Reading/Simpson) https://davekieran.com/about daily 0.75 2017-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1503444182199-NFFX734PKXSFTB2NLN38/Kieran_David-6944.jpg About https://davekieran.com/teaching daily 0.75 2023-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527870752722-FN31PIUT5YC9N0YPEI0S/62458_160311230661073_7812615_n.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/d49999ff-d335-41d9-848a-31924da5ef03/sov-afghanistan-iraq-500.png Teaching - Introduction to U.S. Military History This course examines the relationship between war, the military, and U.S. culture from the Colonial Period to the current moment. Although we will spend some time on tactics and battles, we will focus as well on broader questions that emerge from understanding the military as a critical cultural institution. Among them will be: How have Americans, military and civilian, and those with whom they have fought experienced war, and what factors shaped their experiences? What should the relationship between the military and the nation be during times of war and peace? How have Americans, including service members and veterans, sought to define the military's place in American culture? How have wars and militarism created spaces for debating larger questions about national identity, race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship? Among the topics we will consider are the relationship between military service, citizenship, and civil rights; debates about the citizen’s obligations during wartime; military recruiting; debates about the appropriate roles of women and gay and lesbian service members; and veterans’ issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/6e754cf2-2ca4-499f-8f11-eda2adb1f86c/Defaced-lee-statue-2020.jpg Teaching - War & Memory Recent debates about Confederate Memorials and their place in contemporary U.S. culture have reminded us that the remembrance of war is neither politically neutral nor primarily about the past. It is, rather, a politically fraught process through which individuals and groups stake out positions within, and debate, complicated questions of identity and citizenship. In this course, we will examine the history of these debates, focusing on how Americans have in various moments and geographies endeavored to remember the two most divisive conflicts in U.S. history: the Civil War and the War in Vietnam, while also paying attention to the remembrance of other events. To do so, we will look at how remembrance has been constructed at historic sites, through the construction of memorials and acts of commemoration, and in film and through museum exhibits. Image Credit: By Mk17b - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91805269 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1cbc7c90-0f95-481c-af27-9c62045d20c0/2000w_q95.jpg Teaching - Columbus At War 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. During that war and the concurrent war in Afghanistan, more than 2 million Americans served in Iraq and over 7,000 were killed. Thousands more have been injured. While the costs of war have often been invisible in most communities in the United States, in Columbus they have been hard to avoid. Because Fort Benning is the Army's major training facility, the vast majority of Soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan spent at least some time here. And because of Columbus’ close relationship with the Army, it has witnessed thousands of deployments as well as the return of those who served -- including those who returned injured or who were killed overseas. More than almost any other community, Columbus illuminates how war’s violence and uncertainty radiates through families, schools, neighborhoods, churches, and almost every other facet of life. Telling the story of how Columbus was impacted by the war and how those impacts continue to be felt, is a critical component of reckoning with the war’s legacy. In this student-designed course, we will work to document the impact of the war on the Columbus community. Students will identify topics that they wish to explore, work with community members and organizations to identify key individuals and groups whose stories are important, and, through oral history and archival research, produce a public-facing final project that will document this important history. In short, this course will engage students in a large-scale, community-based public history project that will make a significant impact in our community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527880661289-UCBYT33AJZDN8UJKHYRN/24360r.jpg Teaching - The United States in Vietnam This course examines the United States’ involvement with Vietnam from 1945 to the present, with particular attention to the Second Indochina War (1954-1975) and its legacies. Among the topics that we will discuss are: the domestic and global political contexts that shaped U.S. involvement and conduct in Vietnam; the impact of U.S. support for a succession of South Vietnamese regimes on the people of Vietnam; Vietnamese and U.S. military and political strategies; U.S. domestic and global responses to the war; and the legacies of the war in both the United States and Vietnam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/12be8042-b4f2-433d-b78e-d1ac898daae1/bradleycooperamericansnipersight.jpg Teaching - War & The Military in U.S. Popular Culture In the era of the all-volunteer military, fewer than 1% of Americans serve in the Armed Forces. And yet, the military and the wars that it fights are central features in U.S. popular culture. Americans read novels and memoirs about war. They play video games and films and television shows about war. They celebrate veterans at sporting events, participate in “boot camp” themed workouts and athletic competitions, and buy items ranging from clothing to coffee related to the military. In this course, we will analyze how the military, veterans, and the work that they do and have done in the world has been represented in U.S. popular culture – from Men’s magazines to television and film, from best-selling memoirs to workouts, video games, and children’s toys. As we do so, we will explore how those cultural representations shape ideas about the military, its role in contemporary U.S. culture, those who serve, and larger questions of citizenship, patriotism, and national identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527879276720-WU98SJN4CPNVVTEYDIOI/866042448.jpg Teaching - War & Society in U.S. Culture This course examines the relationship between war, the military, and U.S. culture. We will focus less on how the military has been used in particular instances or on the history of particular wars and instead ask broader questions that emerge from understanding the military as critical cultural institution. Among them will be: What should the relationship between the military and the nation be during times of war and peace? How have Americans, including service members and veterans, sought to define the military's place in American culture? How have wars and militarism created spaces for debating larger questions about national identity, race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527876196279-MERBC2DQN5V2YHZ8MH1Z/1a38138r.jpg Teaching - Black Protest in 20th Century U.S. Culture From anti-lynching protests in the 1890s to Black Lives Matter, African-Americans have struggled to secure rights, freedom, and an end to violence and oppression throughout the “long twentieth century.” This course examines that history through an interdisciplinary investigation of African Americans’ multiple, competing, and often contentious struggles for rights and representation in the long 20th century. In this course, we will challenge the common periodization that emphasizes the 1950s and 1960s as the height of African-American protest and activism and instead ask how African-American freedom struggles have evolved over the course of the past 125 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527880213305-P7OYF0VP3CSMO90NVF5T/Tuskegee-syphilis-study_doctor-injecting-subject.jpg Teaching - Race, Medicine, & Society What does it mean to think about health & illness as social constructions, rather than as biological realities? In this course, we will explore this question by asking how ideas about race and ethnicity have intersected with, shaped, and been shaped by ideas about health, illness, public health, and the practice of medicine. We will examine the intersecting histories of the social construction of racial identity; racism and anti-racism; the quest for civil and human rights; and medicine and public health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527881204417-1HFBJAP7WAGIBU00IS7G/47a8df39b3127cce98549cc5bf9b00000010100AYsmLZy1bNWgg.jpg Teaching - The American War in Vietnam In this travel course, we will explore how the legacy of the Second Indochina War -- the American War -- still shapes Vietnam today. Millions of Vietnamese people live with the legacies of aerial bombardment and the widespread use of herbicides like Agent Orange, and the infrastructure of U.S. bases remains a significant aspect of the post-war Vietnamese landscape. Since 1975, both the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have engaged in fraught debates about how diplomacy and remembrance. Today, Americans are frequent visitors to Vietnam for tourism, humanitarian work, and business, and Vietnam has emerged as a significant economic and political partner. All of these engagements, however, have emerged and still occur in the shadow of a war that ended forty years ago and its legacies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527878670891-C7NLITMRLAOPG886JNDL/US_10th_Mountain_Division_soldiers_in_Afghanistan.jpg Teaching - 9/11 & The War on Terror in U.S. Culture The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 stand as the defining moment for United States foreign policy and, perhaps more generally, United States culture in the twenty-first century. This course will examine the history of the post-September 11th period, asking both what the domestic and foreign policy responses to the attacks have been, how Americans engaged with those events and policies, and how they have been represented in popular culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527882758680-BXUC80H6PWU87OKF6J3C/download-1.jpg Teaching - Seminar in American Studies Who is an “American?” What does it mean to “get,” “have” or be “denied” this identity? What are the rights, privileges, obligations, and attitudes of “Americans”? How have individuals and groups worked to identify themselves and others as “American” – or not American – in recent U.S. history? Why have they done so, and what has been the impact of such efforts? How have “Americans” seen themselves in relation to the “rest” of the world – and how has “the rest of the world” seen “Americans?” In this upper-level, discussion-oriented, interdisciplinary course, we will not assume that there is a single, uncomplicated answer to these questions. Instead, we will explore how groups, individuals, and institutions have imagined and debated them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/d8017358-fb61-473c-958f-846502f469f4/1000w_q95.jpg Teaching - Columbus At War: The Local Impact of The United State’s Longest Wars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/4dfc2162-4a53-4759-80c0-b3b37d511ada/wash_jeff_gala_large%281%29.png Teaching - Dynamic Decades: W&J and the City of Washington in the Midst of Social Change https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527873968879-Y36Z6MOA8JTD6AZSBCGB/DSC_0061_preview.jpg Teaching - Down But Not Out: Down But Not Out: Baseball After September 11th https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527875005905-KYUAWLGDVCOZLMBEFKRM/kieran2-1.jpg Teaching - Remember: Stories of Vietnam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527875546540-P8DV50H7UCANQ15YGK8J/a1media24065-after-war-student-documentary.full.jpg Teaching - After War: Iraqi Refugees & Iraq Veterans in Lancaster County https://davekieran.com/journals daily 0.75 2023-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1561407747814-Y3I8XHPSN0GUSGHVYSXT/9781479892365.jpg Scholarly Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527795688766-AF79NTFN7A7QI8RP58Q2/DWeAf_0XcAA6z3E.jpg Scholarly Writing - Re-conceptualizing Cultures of Remote Warfare Special Issue of Journal and War & Culture Studies 11:1 (2018) Co-Edited with Rebecca A. Adelman This special issue of The Journal of War and Culture Studies maintains that there is more to be said about remote warfare, and the three essays contained herein develop new, more substantive and productive ways of thinking about remoteness in warfare by opening up uncharted critical spaces in which to reflect on it and, more specifically, its cultural origins, consequences, and enmeshments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589485190405-JW2GKUCPA5YWRMPSFPMG/JWCS.jpg Scholarly Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589485290305-AX3PPUVVFEAUFRUGVLWL/13097.jpg Scholarly Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589485064377-ENDQQOG8TJTH606P8UIP/FitzgeraldNot.jpg Scholarly Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527868330109-CJ2K5NPX94DGZ1QKPPO7/cover.jpg Scholarly Writing - Journal of American Studies 51:2 (2017) “Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing”: Barack Obama, the Vietnam War's Legacy, and the Cultural Politics of Military Awards during the Afghanistan War https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527797386564-GFGJ013U0Z8DJZSI9MMW/front_cover.jpg Scholarly Writing - Journal of American Studies 53:2 (2014) “We Combat Veterans Have a Responsibility to Ourselves and Our Families”: Domesticity and the Politics of PTSD in Memoirs of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527797773890-9RY5I4UY1HIC1TQXKEA2/front_cover-1.jpg Scholarly Writing - Children's Literature Association Quarterly 37:1 (2012) “What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country is Attacked”: Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527798010682-TDONU2PRP0RDWBR5KDII/ywar20.v037.i02.cover.jpg Scholarly Writing - War & Society 31:1 (2012) ‘It’s a different time. It’s a different era. It’s a different place’: the Legacy of Vietnam and Contemporary Memoirs of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527798672251-W3O76M6Q9BGVWJ3LTZVZ/9780520299184.jpg Scholarly Writing - Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Popular Culture After 9/11, ed. Scott Laderman and Tim Gruenwald. (University of California Press, 2018) “‘The First Step Towards Curing the Post-War Blues is a Return to Nature:’ Veterans Outdoor Rehabilitation Programs and the Normalization of Empire” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527803457724-77THBQK1I5AI1HSAIV9C/9781138902985.jpg Scholarly Writing - The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military “Gender and Militarism in U.S. Culture During the Long Twentieth Century” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527803703567-6HL4LKXXLOA9ORJHK3EX/shafr_guide_online.jpg Scholarly Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527804428680-GCXLI265TSPYJPSOO7PC/9781479826902_Full.jpg Scholarly Writing - Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Edited by Beth Bailey and Richard H. Immerman “Veterans Readjustment After The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527804437324-IKMEK8ETE5BORQ99GC3G/51yqrNDGEIL.jpg Scholarly Writing - Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights: Mediating Suffering, Ed. Tristan Anne Borer “Humanitarian Intervention: Cultural Remembrance and the Reading of Somalia as Vietnam.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527804681812-83M238S724Z7SXXZQJBN/51fFkY0k%2BHL._SX309_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Scholarly Writing - Demands of the Dead: Executions in US Literature, Ed. Kathleen Ryan. “The Cultural Memory of Lynching and Institutional Violence in Post-1960 African-American Poetry.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1527804781218-0L4P2RNB3X0F84JFTCI8/5151Ih83r2L._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_-1.jpg Scholarly Writing - The Theme of Cultural Adaptation in American History, Literature and Film: Cases When the Discourse Changed, edited by Laurence Raw, Tanfer Emin Tunc and Gulriz Buken “‘A Deadly Combination With Which We . . . are Only Too Familiar:’ Adapting Contemporary and Historical Discourses of Race in The Popular Literature of the Somalia Intervention.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1658252958775-LV5JSUP1CL9TRL6V9N51/51lVY1pvZ4L._SX329_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpeg Scholarly Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1774380802744-4TAMJUCOC0998DRDRL6S/9781108837033.jpeg Scholarly Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1774380802741-NJ07QM4HEV1ZRIV11621/journal_of+policy+history.jpeg Scholarly Writing https://davekieran.com/books daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589482757522-AI4D4Z16GGNQ1FV9GDIW/9781479892365.jpg Scholarly Writing - Signature Wounds New York University Press, 2019 Drawing on previously unreleased documents and oral histories, Signature Wounds tells the broad and nuanced story of the Army’s efforts to understand and address these issues, challenging the popular media view that the Iraq War was mismanaged by a callous military unwilling to address the human toll of the wars. The story of mental health during this war is the story of how different groups—soldiers, veterans and their families, anti-war politicians, researchers and clinicians, and military leaders—approached these issues from different perspectives and with different agendas. It is the story of how the advancement of medical knowledge moves at a different pace than the needs of an Army at war, and it is the story of how medical conditions intersect with larger political questions about militarism and foreign policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589483304272-YLPF8PQM4DKJOVILDUA4/51EjkzAs0PL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Scholarly Writing - Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory University of Massachusetts Press, 2014 Four decades after its end, the American war in Vietnam still haunts the nation’s collective memory. Its lessons, real and imagined, continue to shape government policies and military strategies, while the divisions it spawned infect domestic politics and fuel the so-called culture wars. In Forever Vietnam, David Kieran shows how the contested memory of the Vietnam War has affected the commemoration of other events, and how those acts of remembrance have influenced postwar debates over the conduct and consequences of American foreign policy. I focus my analysis on the recent remembrance of six events, three of which occurred before the Vietnam War and three after it ended. The first group includes the siege of the Alamo in 1836, the incarceration of Union troops at Andersonville during the Civil War, and the experience of American combat troops during World War II. The second comprises the 1993 U.S. intervention in Somalia, the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589483374562-OE81V5ZTLMT9Q54BOEN9/Remote+Warfare.jpeg Scholarly Writing - Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence Co-Edited with Rebecca A. Adelman University of Minnesota Press, 2020 Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence. The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a “warrior,” these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589483677222-T0V2G1SG0WZ43RA6B7ER/9780813584324.jpg Scholarly Writing - At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Co-Edited with Edwin A. Martini Rutgers University Press, 2018. The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture. At War offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the U.S. military and why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/1589483992861-D1360HK2DDLFTYRYLFEM/9780813572611.jpg Scholarly Writing - The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror Rutgers University Press, 2015 Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participants—as potential military recruits and organizers for social justice amid anti-immigration policies, as students in schools learning about the attacks or readers of young adult literature about wars. The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped these new generations of Americans. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to computer games designed to promote military recruitment to emails from parents in the combat zone. The collection considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young people's experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizen-subjects in that moment. Revealing how young people understand the War on Terror—and how adults understand the way young people think—The War of My Generation offers groundbreaking research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds. https://davekieran.com/home daily 1.0 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573a04372fe131630fd25157/1469729752911-UFETSG39XPIFRSHOM0XH/hero_pattern.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c8843e58c62a4d4e3d9ce/af1b3878-63c2-42b8-80a5-4a8ca20cea1f/IMG_0071.jpg Home - Greetings! I am historian of War & Society in contemporary U.S. culture, and I hold the Colonel Richard R. Hallock Distinguished Chair in Military History at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA. I have a particular interest in how Americans within and outside the military have grappled with the challenging questions that emerged during and after the United States’ wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. These issues have been the topics of my scholarly books, my public writing, and the courses that I teach. 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Hallock Distinguished Lecture