Andrew Wiest is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and is also the founding director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. He is the author of numerous books, especially on the Vietnam War. His most recent publication is "Vietnam: A View From the Frontlines."

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Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) served as executive officer to General David Petraeus in Iraq. He is the author of "Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq" and the forthcoming "Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War."

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Tanya L. Roth received a PhD in History from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011. Her dissertation, "Battling for Equality: Sexual Integration in the U.S. Military, 1945-1978", analyzes the evolution in women’s military roles during the Cold War.