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Mark A. Moyar | |
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| Born | (1971-05-12)May 12, 1971 (age 54) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Education | Cambridge University, Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Cambridge University |
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| Discipline | Military history |
| Institutions | Hillsdale College Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| Website | www |
Mark A. Moyar (born May 12, 1971) is the former Director of the Office for Civilian-Military Cooperation at theUS Agency for International Development, a political appointment he received during the Trump administration.[1][2] He currently serves as the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College.[3] He served previously as the Director of the Project on Military and Diplomatic History[4][5] at theCenter for Strategic and International Studies, and has been a Senior Fellow at theForeign Policy Research Institute[6] and a member of theHoover Institution Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict.[7]
Moyar was born May 12, 1971, in Cleveland, Ohio to Bert and Marjorie Moyar. He graduated from Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio in 1989.
Moyar holds aB.A.summa cum laude in history fromHarvard University and aPh.D. in history fromCambridge University. While a student at Harvard, he wrote for the conservative student newspaperThe Harvard Salient. He also played saxophone in the Harvard Jazz Band with legendary saxophonistJoshua Redman.
His articles on historical and current events have appeared inThe New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, andThe Washington Post. During his time as a Senior Fellow at the Joint Special Operations University (2013-2015), he published three lengthy studies on special operations—in Colombia, Afghanistan, and Mali: Village Stability Operations and the Afghan Local Police (2014),[8] Countering Violent Extremism in Mali (2015),[9] and Persistent Engagement in Colombia (2014)[10]
Moyar is the author of the 2006 bookTriumph Forsaken: TheVietnam War, 1954–1965. In it he argues thatNgo Dinh Diem was an effective leader. Moyar states that supporting theNovember 1963 coup was one of the worst American mistakes of the war. The other biggest mistakes according to Moyar were: the failure to cut theHo Chi Minh trail, and theUnited States Congress' refusal to support theSouth Vietnamese government after the 1973Paris Peace Accords were violated, and the refusal of emergency aid to South Vietnam near the end of the war.
Triumph Forsaken caused a great stir and many opinionated reviews, some negative, as well as some positive. In response to the reactions engendered by the book, Andrew Wiest and Michael J. Doidge editedTriumph revisited : historians battle for the Vietnam War (2010),[11] a collection of detailed reviews of the book by 15 different academic historians. The reviews are attached to responses by Moyar, who challenges the criticism of his work.
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