Peter Mansoor

The Ohio State University

Peter Mansoor is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University. His research interests include modern U.S. military history, World War II, the Iraq War, and counterinsurgency warfare. He is currently working on a monograph on the liberation of the Philippines during World War II. Prof. Mansoor’s publications include: The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945 (University Press of Kansas, 2020), which received the Society for Military History distinguished book award and the Army Historical Society distinguished book award in 2000; a personal memoir, Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq (Yale University Press, 2008); and Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War (Yale University Press, 2013). He has also co-edited (with Williamson Murray) Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Grand Strategy and Military Alliances (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and The Culture of Military Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and (with Thomas Robertson, Richard P. Tucker, and Nicholas B. Breyfogle) Nature at War: American Environments and World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Colonel Mansoor (U.S. Army, Retired) served in the U.S. Army for 28 years, and commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division from 2003 to 2005, including 13 months in combat in Iraq from July 2003 to July 2004. He is currently president of the Society for Military History (2021-2023).