Arthur Herman is working on his sixth book. His most recent work, Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed An Empire and Forged Our Age, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and chosen for The Washington Post's list of the Best Books of 2008. The paperback edition release date is May 2009. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World (2001) and To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (2005), which was nominated for the UK's prestigious Mountbatten Prize.
He comments frequently on military matters and foreign policy for Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, and Wall Street Journal Asia in addition to the New York Post, and on the air for Fox News Channel and CNN's Lou Dobbs.
Dr Herman's books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, French, and Portuguese.A former professor of history at Georgetown and George Mason Universities, he received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.
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May 07, 2012 12:00 AM
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April 10, 2012 12:00 AM
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March 26, 2012 12:00 AM
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March 07, 2012 12:00 AM
President Obama will speak before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. Expect a lot of soothing words about how America’s relations...
March 02, 2012 12:00 AM
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January 17, 2012 12:00 AMAnyone wondering if we still need a strong US Navy should consider the current commotion over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has decided to raise the tension over its nuclear-weapons program by threatening to shut down that...
December 30, 2011 12:00 AM
Five years late, Ilario Pantano has been fully vindicated. Now where does he go to get his reputation back?A dogged NCIS investigator has proven that Pantano, then a Marine lieutenant, should never have been put up on...
December 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Four years ago, Russians compared Vladimir Putin to Peter the Great. Now many are openly likening him to Leonid Brezhnev, the senile Soviet premier who had symbolized the broken-down and corrupt end-stage of Communism....
December 12, 2011 12:00 AM
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December 07, 2011 12:00 AMThe news last week from the Pentagon’s supersecret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that it had successfully tested a hypersonic missile capable of speeds up to 3,082 mph caused quite a stir in military circles...
November 22, 2011 12:00 AMTen years ago today, the first American Special Forces landed in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Five weeks later, the fighting was over, as Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda fled across the border into...
October 19, 2011 12:00 AMA stunning revelation from a Wikileaks document dump shows President Obama badly bungling relations with our oldest democratic ally in Asia. In a September 2009 cable prior to Obama’s official visit to Tokyo, our...
October 13, 2011 12:00 AM
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September 30, 2011 12:00 AM
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August 29, 2011 12:00 AM
The fall of monstrous dictator Moammar Khadafy -- a leading facilitator of Middle East terrorism -- should be a cause for celebration. These days, however, the feeling is more one of apprehension. As with Iran four...
August 23, 2011 12:00 AM
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August 04, 2011 12:00 AM
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July 21, 2011 12:00 AMJust a year after the BP oil spill, America is on the verge of a new golden era of oil exploration and production -- unless President Obama and his environmentalist friends get their way. This surge in domestic...
July 14, 2011 12:00 AMPresident Obama's speech on Afghanistan last Wednesday has left supporters and opponents alike wondering if he has a strategy there at all -- or is just trying to split the difference between fighting and abandoning an...
June 28, 2011 12:00 AM
Thirty-six years after chasing the United States out of Vietnam, the com munist rulers in Hanoi now want us back. The ironies of this bizarre turn of events are many, but the reason is simple: China. Beijing has been...
June 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Barack Obama surely wants to be remembered as the president who got Osama bin Laden and passed the nation's first universal-health-care plan. Instead, history may well mark him down as the leader who let Iran get the...
June 09, 2011 12:00 AM
Robert Gates is stepping down as de fense secretary after 4½ years of hon orable service -- notching up remarkable successes even as he's presided over a perilous decline in America's military capabilities. With the...
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May 11, 2011 12:00 AM
On April 16, 1961, the Bay of Pigs was a lonely stretch of water and beach on the southern coast of Cuba. A day later, it was where American sea and air forces landed some 1,400 armed Cuban exiles, as part of President...
April 18, 2011 12:00 AM
When President Obama made his Cairo speech two years ago, apologiz ing for nearly everything America had done in the Mideast since Jimmy Carter, some of us worried that the goal was nothing less than terminating US...
April 04, 2011 12:00 AM
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