Carter Malkasian is currently the Chair of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, California. He has published several books, including the critically acclaimed The American War in Afghanistan: A History (Oxford University Press, 2021). He completed his doctorate on the history of wars of attrition, specializing in the Korean War, at Oxford University. CARTER MALKASIAN is an analyst at the CNA Corporation, a federally funded research and development center in Washington, D.C.