Counterinsurgency and the Profession of History

Dr. Marjorie Galelli is the Associate Director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas, where she recently received her PhD. She is also a Henry Chauncey ’57 Postdoctoral fellow in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale. Her research focuses on the relationship between the US military, the government, the media, and the American people, throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Her manuscript, Two Sides of the Same COIN: A History of the United States and Counterinsurgency During Operation Iraqi Freedom examines the United States’ progressive adoption of counterinsurgency (COIN) between 2003 and 2011.

*Originally recorded June 7, 2022.