LTC Brian Drohan Associate Professor Division Chief, International History History brian.drohan [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications LTC Brian Drohan is an Academy Professor in the Department of History at West Point, where he specializes in 20th century international and military history.He led an armor platoon in Iraq with the 1st Infantry Division; deployed twice to the U.S. Embassy to Sri Lanka in support of Special Operations Command – Pacific; and served as a strategist at the Eighth Army headquarters in the Republic of Korea. Ph.D. – University of North Carolina at Chapel HillM.A. – University of PennsylvaniaB.A. – University of Pennsylvania Research Interests International History (diplomacy, international organizations and institutions, humanitarianism, human rights), Military History, Imperialism and decolonization, Cold War Selected Publications Imjin River 1951: Last Stand of the ‘Glorious Glosters’ (Osprey Publishing, 2018).Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire (Cornell University Press, 2017).“U.S. Military Humanitarianism and the United Nations,” Modern American History 7, no. 1 (2024): 103-108.“The Battle for Manila, February-March 1945: Balancing Force Protection and Civilian Casualties,” Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era, ed. Gregory Fremont-Barnes (Naval Institute Press, 2024), 138-171.“Retaining Flexibility: Dag Hammarskjöld, the 1958 Summary Study, and the History of UN Peacekeeping,” Global Governance 29, no. 2 (2023): 119-135.“Sinning Quietly: Law and Human Rights in British Colonial Counter-Insurgency,” The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies, eds. Gareth Curless and Martin Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2023), 234-53.