Mark Moyar is a Visiting Scholar at the Foreign Policy Initiative. His books include Aid for Elites: Building Partner Nations and Ending Poverty Through Human Capital (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America (Threshold, 2015); A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (Yale University Press, 2009); Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965 (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam (Naval Institute Press, 1997; University of Nebraska Press, 2007). He is currently writing a book on the history of U.S. special operations forces. He holds a BA, summa cum laude, from Harvard and a PhD from Cambridge.