Colonel Gail E. S. Yoshitani is the Professor and Head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point.  She holds a PhD in military history from Duke University, and is a permanent member of the West Point faculty. Her basic branch is Military Police, and she is an Army strategist. In 2011, Yoshitani served as the Director of the Commander’s Initiatives Group, Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command in Afghanistan; and, in 2015-16, she served as a Fellow on the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Strategic Studies Group in Washington, DC. Yoshitani is the author of Reagan on War: A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984 and co-editor of The West Point History of Warfare, Vol. 4, Warfare since 1945, for which she won the Society for Military History and George C. Marshall Foundation Prize for the Use of Digital Technology in Teaching Military History.