COL Gail E. S. Yoshitani Department Head History gail.yoshitani [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Colonel Gail E. S. Yoshitani is the Professor and Head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. After earning her PhD in military history from Duke University in 2008, she became a permanent member of the West Point faculty. Since 2008, she has returned to the operational force on two occasions to serve as an Army strategist. In 2011, she served as the Director of the Commander’s Initiatives Group, Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command-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. M.S.S. - U.S. Army War CollegePh.D. in Military History - Duke UniversityM.A. in Military History - Duke UniversityB.S. in Geopolitics - United States Military Academy Research Interests Military History, American Foreign Relations, 1898-Present, Reagan Administration, Civil-Military Relations, Use of Military Power Current Research In His Own Words: Alexander M. Haig Jr. and the Professional Soldier’s Role in National Security Policy Selected Publications A Roundtable on William Inboden, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World in Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Review 54, no. 2 (September 2023).“Principled Realism in the Reagan Administration,” in Policy Roundtable: Does Reagan’s Foreign Policy Legacy Live On? Texas National Security Review, 9 October 2018.One of six lead authors, The Character of Warfare 2030 to 2050: Technological Change, the International System, and the State, Arlington, VA: Chief of staff of the Army’s Strategic Studies Group, 2016.“Overcoming Inertia through Simulation: U.S. Transportation Command.” In Stand Up and Fight: The Creation of U.S. Security Organizations, 1942-2005, edited by James Seidule and Jacqueline Whitt. Carlisle Barracks, PA: The U.S. Army War College Press, 2015, 79-101.The West Point History of Warfare, vol. 4 (Warfare since 1945), co-edited with Clifford J. Rogers. [A 14-chapter digital interactive history of recent warfare with 11 distinguished authors.] New York: Rowan Technology Solutions, Beta release 2014; Version 1.0 release 2015.Reagan on War: A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.