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Edward Mead Earle
1894–1954
A historian of war and foreign policy, he helped shape how Americans thought about strategy in the first half of the twentieth century. His work connected military power to diplomacy, scholarship, and public affairs in ways that still feel strikingly modern.
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Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A study in imperialism
by Edward Mead Earle
About the author
Born in 1894, he was an American author, lecturer, and historian who specialized in the role of the military in foreign relations. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University and later built a career studying how war, strategy, and statecraft intersect.
He taught at Columbia before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he spent many years as a professor in its School of Economics and Politics. During World War II, he also served as a consultant to departments of the U.S. government, bringing his academic knowledge into practical policy work.
He is especially remembered for influential writing on modern strategy and for helping establish strategic studies as a serious field of inquiry. He died on June 23, 1954.