J.P. Clark

 J.P. Clark is a strategist, educator, and historian. 

A retired U.S. Army colonel, in twenty-six years of service J.P. held a variety of positions from commanding a tank company in South Korea to serving as the chief of the Strategy Division on the Army Staff in the Pentagon. He also served on the personal staffs of the Secretary of the Army and the British Chief of the General Staff, as the Army’s chief of joint concepts, as the director of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute, and on the faculties of both West Point and the Army War College. He was the lead author for a number of government documents to include the Joint Concept for Integrated Campaigning and the Army in Multi-Domain Operations, 2028. He has also been a co-lead for published studies of U.S. Army force posture in Europe and Joint All-Domain Command and Control. 

J.P. is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern US Army, 1815-1917 (Harvard University Press, 2017). His other published work has appeared in Parameters, War on the Rocks, and the Oxford Handbook of National Security, among other outlets. He is currently working on a history of U.S. military strategy in the Pacific from 1898 to 1941.

J.P. holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University, an M.S.S. from the Army War College, and a B.S. from West Point.