JHU SAIS to Host Launch of Professor Eliot Cohen’s New Book on the History of the American Way of War
MEDIA ADVISORY
November 3, 2011
JHU SAIS to Host Launch of Professor Eliot Cohen’s New Book on the History of the American Way of War
The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will host a discussion of Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War, a new book by Eliot Cohen, director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program, on Thursday, November 10 at 6 p.m.
Cohen will make some introductory remarks, followed by a panel discussion about the book. Panelists include:
• Tom Ricks, author and military journalist
• Nicholas Westbrook, director emeritus of Fort Ticonderoga
• Charles Doran (moderator), director of the SAIS Canadian Studies and International Relations programs
In Conquered Into Liberty, to be released by Free Press on November 15, Cohen describes how five peoples—the British, French, Americans, Canadians and Indians—fought over the key to the North American continent: the corridor running from Albany to Montreal dominated by the Champlain valley and known to Native Americans as the “Great Warpath.” He reveals how conflict along these two hundred miles of lake, river, and woodland shaped the country’s military values, practices and institutions.
Even today, the Great Warpath legacy endures. U.S. Army rangers trace their lineage and military culture to the ranger unit formed by Robert Rogers here in the middle of the 18th century, and when Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan this year, they took part in the tradition of “cross-border operations” stretching back centuries. Cohen, author of the prize-winning Supreme Command and former counselor of the U.S. Department of State, delves deep into history, while explaining its contemporary significance.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school’s Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to [email protected]. Cohen will be available to sign books starting at 5:30 p.m.
Members of the media who want to cover this event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].