Professor of International Studies
Virginia Military Institute

Spencer Bakich is a professor of international studies and the director of the National Security Program at the Virginia Military Institute, and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. Dr. Bakich is the author of Success and Failure in Limited War: Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars. His second book, George H. W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War: Diplomacy, War, and Grand Strategy in the New World Order is under contract with the University Press of Kansas. Dr. Bakich's commentary has been featured in The National Interest, USA Today and The Washington Post. Working with the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Project, Dr. Bakich has interviewed numerous senior policymakers, military officers and Foreign Service officers who served in the George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

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