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Dr. Lon Strauss
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Dr. Strauss joined the Command and Staff College as an Assistant Professor of Military History in War Studies in 2017. He was a Visiting Professor at the U.S. Army War College from 2016 to 2017. Before that, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University from 2014 to 2016. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Lecturer at the University of Kansas and Park University, as well as an Adjunct Professor online with Park University, American Military University, and Norwich University.
Dr. Strauss is currently working on a book manuscript on US military intelligence and surveillance of the home front during the First World War. He is writing an article on US war powers and the influences of national security versus civil liberties in the First World War for the international journal First World War Studies, as well as another article on current Marine Corps concepts and NATO’s northern flank for Arctic Review on Law and Politics. Dr. Strauss is co-author of War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World. He wais a section-editor with 1914-1918-online from 2014-2020, published "Fear of Infectious Dissent: First World War Military Intelligence, Labor, and the Conscientious Objection of Erling Lunde" in The International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflicts, as well as "Breakthrough and Pursuit," a chapter in A Concise History of the Meuse-Argonne and "US Military Planning during the Interwar Period" in The Routledge Handbook for US Diplomatic and Military History. He also wrote “Trench Warfare” for Oxford Bibliographies in Military History.
Currently, Dr. Strauss is on the Membership and Staffing Committee of the Society for Military History. He is also on the editorial board of The Journal of Peace and War Studies. He has presented his research at various national and international scholarly conferences to include multiple meetings of the Society for Military History, the British Commission on Military History, the International Conference on Resisting War in the 20th Century in Portugal, the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, and more.*
*source: https://www.usmcu.edu/About-MCU/Faculty/Faculty-Directory/Strauss/
Conference Abstract
The strategic challenge of expeditionary warfare and the defence of NATO’s northern flank
Defending NATO’s northern flank in an international situation characterized by great power rivalry, represents a strategic challenge involving both political dilemmas and operational challenges, as well as climatic and geographic obstacles. As the northern flank has little infrastructure, no permanent foreign military bases and is located in the shadows of a potent Russian A2/AD system, it is a difficult part of the alliance to operate in and project power. As the US Marine Corps is the primary American expeditionary force designated to support NATO in the high north, this chapter will use the USMC and its evolving operational concepts as the analysis’ point of departure. Through applying the security-political context of the High North this chapter analyses the degree to, and the way in which the Marine Corps is planning to conduct joint operations in this demanding northern region. In specific the chapter assess how the USMC can operate with other branches of the US military as well as local allied forces. Using the US Marines experimental concept Force Design 2030, through which the USMC is supposed to be closer integrated with the NAVY, applying the operational concept labelled Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations, this chapter seeks to give a comprehensive assessment of the challenges for NATO to develop, prepare, and train to be better prepared to project military power on its northern flank.
