2025 Hewlett Lecture: James G. Lacey on "World War II: How the Bureaucracy Went to War" (virtual lecture)

SHFG is delighted to welcome James G. Lacey  of the Marine Corps War College for the 2025 Hewlett Lecture. 

Lacey will discuss "World War II: How the Bureacracy Went to War." 

The lecture will be on November 6 starting at noon est. We will have plenty of time for Q&A and hope many of you can join us virtually. 

Please register to receive the zoom link. 

Biography

Dr. James Lacey is the Course Director, Campaigning and Warfare; Professor of Strategic Studies; and holds the Horner Chair of War Studies at the Marine Corps War College.  Prior to taking this position, he was a widely published senior analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C.  Lacey served over a dozen years on active duty as an infantry officer and is retired from the Army Reserve.  

Dr. Lacey is the author of: 

• Moment of Battle (Bantam),
• The First Clash (Bantam),
• Takedown: the 3rd Infantry Division’s 21-Day Assault on Baghdad (Naval Institute Press),
• Pershing (Palgrave-Macmillan)
• The Making of Peace (Cambridge University Press)
• The Making of Grand Strategy (Cambridge University Press)
• Keep from All Thoughtful Men (USNI, 2010)

He has also published a trilogy of works on global terrorism, published early in 2008 (Naval Institute Press).  

Three of his more recent books are: 

• Great Strategic Rivalries (Oxford, 2017)
• The Washington War (Bantam, 2019) dealing with the relationship between FDR, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the War Cabinet during WW II.
• Gods of War (Bantam, 2020), dealing with those times in history when great captains have fought each other.  

His latest books are: 

• Rome: A Strategy of Empire (Oxford, 2022)
• Supreme Leadership (Routledge, 2023), an edited volume.

Current Research Interests include:  The American Revolution, 1944 in the European Theater, Future conflict and competition, and Operational level warfare through the ages.