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Matthew Moten

Matthew Moten
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Matthew Moten

Colonel Matthew Moten is professor and deputy head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy. A graduate of West Point, he has served in the U.S. Army for over twenty-seven years, including assignments in the Pentagon, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq. He specializes in the history of American political-military relations. His recent publications include an essay entitled “A Broken Dialogue: Rumsfeld, Shinseki, and Civil-Military Tension,” in American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and a short monograph entitled The Army Officer’s Professional... Read full bio

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Critical War Theory
Policy Review, February 2, 2012
...Ann Marlowe on Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars edited by Matthew Moten Matthew Moten, ed. Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars. Free Press. 371 Pages. $27.99. Looking at war only from the soldier’s perspective, says Roger...
Iraq snapshot
The Common Ills, September 15, 2011
...be the saddest thing about Northam's report.   Then she moves on to West Point's Army Col Matthew Moten who insists "that the public has other issues on its mind" such as the economy, the federal deficit, etc.  You mean the issues on the public's mind...
This Week at War: The Long Shadow of Battles Past
SWJ Blog, July 24, 2011
...of the country's leading military historians to examine how the United States has concluded its wars. Col. Matthew Moten, head of West Point's history department, recruited 15 distinguished military historians to each write one chapter of Between War and...