D. M. Giangreco, served as an editor at Military Review, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for 20 years. Giangreco has lectured widely on national security matters. An award-winning author of 12 books on military and sociopolitical subjects, he has also written extensively for various national and international publications and news agencies. Giangreco was awarded the Society for Military History's 1998 Moncado Prize for his article "Casualty Projections for the US Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications." Giangreco also won the Gerard Gilbert Award (1988 France and Colonies Philatelic Society) for his book Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Posts, and his article "The Truth About Kamikazes," was the principal nomination of US Naval Institute, Annapolis, for the Association of Naval Aviation's award for Best Article of 1997 on Naval Aviation. Giangreco's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Russian (pirated), Japanese, and Chinese. His most recent books are, Dear Harry on the correspondence of "Everyday Americans" with the Truman White House (2000), Artillery in Korea: Massing Fires and Reinventing the Wheel (2003), the Eyewitness series for Barnes & Noble Books -- Eyewitness D-Day (2004), Eyewitness Vietnam (2006), Eyewitness Pacific Theater (2008), and most recently, Hell to Pay (2009), and The Soldier from Independence (2009).

John T. Kuehn is a former naval aviator (EP-3/ES-3) who has completed cruises aboard four different aircraft carriers. He flew reconnaissance missions during the last decade of the Cold War, the First Gulf War (Desert Storm) and the Balkans (Deliberate Force over Bosnia). He currently serves as a Professor of Military History at the Army Command and Staff School. He previously served as FADM E. J. King Visiting Professor at the US Naval War College 2020-2021. Kuehn served on the faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College since July 2000, retiring from the naval service in 2004. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Kansas State University in 2007. He is the author of the Agents of Innovation and Eyewitness Pacific Theater with Dennis Giangreco, A Military History of Japan (Praeger, 2014), Napoleonic Warfare (Praeger, 2015), America's First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the Navy, 1900-1950 (Naval Institute, 2017), and most recently The 100 Worst Disasters in Military History, with David Holden (ABC-CLIO, 2020). He is a past Major General William Stofft Chair of Historical Research and Professor of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He won the Moncado Award from the Society of Military History in 2010 for his essay "The U.S. Navy General Board and Naval Arms Limitation: 1922-1937." He was also honored as "Best Faculty Member" by Norwich University in the Military History Masters program in 2011.