Dr. James Lacey is the Course Director, Campaigning and Warfare; Professor of Strategic Studies; and holds the Horner Chair of War Studies at the Marine Corps War College. Prior to taking this position, he was a widely published senior analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C. Lacey served over a dozen years on active duty as an infantry officer and is retired from the Army Reserve.
Dr. Lacey is the author of:
- Moment of Battle (Bantam),
- The First Clash (Bantam),
- Takedown: the 3rd Infantry Division’s 21-Day Assault on Baghdad (Naval Institute Press),
- Pershing (Palgrave-Macmillan)
- The Making of Peace (Cambridge University Press)
- The Making of Grand Strategy (Cambridge University Press)
- Keep from All Thoughtful Men (USNI, 2010)
He has also published a trilogy of works on global terrorism, published early in 2008 (Naval Institute Press).
Three of his more recent books are:
- Great Strategic Rivalries (Oxford, 2017)
- The Washington War (Bantam, 2019) dealing with the relationship between FDR, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the War Cabinet during WW II.
- Gods of War (Bantam, 2020), dealing with those times in history when great captains have fought each other.
His latest books are:
- Rome: A Strategy of Empire (Oxford, 2022)
- Supreme Leadership (Routledge, 2023), an edited volume.
Current Research Interests include: The American Revolution, 1944 in the European Theater, Future conflict and competition, and Operational level warfare through the ages.