Arthur Herman is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of its Quantum Alliance Initiative, where he works on quantum computing and related quantum information technology. He received his Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Herman has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, Catholic University, George Mason University, and the University of the South. He writes regularly for Commentary, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, Mosaic, Nikkei Asian Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed An Empire and Forged Our Age—which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009—1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder, and Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior.

Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quickwitted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and designing, capable of both caution and surprise, lavish and rapacious, generous and mean, skillful in defense and attack.” This third CCA of the 20192020 academic year will consider the lives and characters of some of America’s greatest generals.