Between War and Peace How America Ends Its Wars

An anthology of new essays about how the US has ended all of its major wars by major historians.

 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 Ethic—Past, Present and Future (Strategic Studies Institute, February 2010).  He is currently writing a history of American political-military relations.  Colonel Moten holds a doctorate in history from Rice University and is author of The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession (Texas A&M Press, 2000).  He and his wife Margaret have two grown children, Stephanie and Marshall.