About Andrew Pace

Dr. Andrew O. Pace is a Senior Historian at SNA International in support of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). He helps to locate and identify missing American servicemembers from World War II by tracking cold paper trails, searching archival records, and investigating historical evidence. His academic research focuses on the history of US grand strategy and the moral fog of war, and he is currently completing his first book manuscript, Total Victory: Unconditional Surrender and Unlimited War in World War II. Dr. Pace has also worked as a brick-wall genealogist for Ancestry, taught US history and American foreign relations, and was named a junior scholar with the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON) at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His research has been supported by the University of Colorado Boulder, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, the LBJ Foundation, and the Charles Koch Foundation. Dr. Pace holds a PhD in history from the University of Colorado Boulder, an MA in social sciences from the University of Chicago, and an Honors BA in history from the University of Utah. Dr. Pace is not an employee of DPAA, he supports DPAA through a partnership. The views presented are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of DPAA, DoD or its components.
Andrew O. Pace is a Senior Historian at SNA International in support of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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NBN Episodes hosted by Andrew:

Kennedy’s Only Hero: How JFK’s Obsession with Winston Churchill Defined His Presidency with Joel Nelson (Public Affairs, 2026)

October 1, 2026

Kennedy's Only Hero

Joel Nelson
Hosted by Andrew Pace

President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill remain two of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century and Joel Nelson’s new…

Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the North American Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War with Jason Bell (Hanover Square Press, 2026)

September 30, 2026

Operation Sparrow

Jason Bell
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Historians have always known that the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day in June 1944 depended on deceiving the Germans about where t…

Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup" (Bold Type Books, 2025)

February 8, 2026

The Power and the Glory

Jonathan Wilson
Hosted by Andrew Pace

As the world prepares for the 2026 World Cup, Jonathan Wilson’s new book, The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup (Bold Type Books, 2025…

Alex Wellerstein, "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" (Harper, 2025)

January 21, 2026

The Most Awful Responsibility

Alex Wellerstein
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Dropping the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was, arguably, the most controversial decision of the 20th century. The responsibility for that…

Richard Fine, "The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany" (Cornell, 2023)

January 13, 2026

The Price of Truth

Richard Fine
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany (Cornell, 2023), Richard Fine recounts the intens…

Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)

December 26, 2025

Fallout

Joel S. Wit
Hosted by Andrew Pace

After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nucl…

Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)

September 10, 2025

Getting Russia Right

Thomas Graham
Hosted by Andrew Pace

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia,” Winston Churchill once said. “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” That saying so…

Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)

August 19, 2025

Scorched Earth

Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the …

W. Henry Sledge, "The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed" (Knox Press, 2025)

August 14, 2025

The Old Breed...The Complete Story Revealed

W. Henry Sledge
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Because events like D-Day and the Battle of Okinawa took place an entire lifetime ago, it is rare to find any new accounts and memories from veterans.…

Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968" (Yale UP, 2024)

July 22, 2025

The Year That Broke Politics

Luke A. Nichter
Hosted by Andrew Pace

A sitting Democratic president who chooses not to run for re-election, a vice president running out of the president’s shadow, and a Republican nomine…

Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 18, 2025

Statecraft 2.0

Dennis Ross
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In a multipolar world where America wields less relative power, the United States can no longer get away with poor statecraft. To understand how the U…

Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)

May 13, 2025

Kent State

Brian VanDeMark
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Fifty-five years after the terrible shooting at Kent State University, I spoke with Brian VanDeMark, a Professor of History at the US Naval Academy, a…

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

April 27, 2025

The Battle of Manila

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In our conversation about The Battle of Manila (Oxford University Press, 2025), Nicholas Evan Sarantakes explains how U.S. forces under General Dougla…

Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

January 9, 2025

Spaces of Treblinka

Jacob Flaws
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In our conversation about Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), Dr. Jacob Flaws expands the spatial real…

James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)

September 6, 2024

Black Snow

James M. Scott
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In our interview about Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), James M. …

Edwin P Rutan II, "High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor" (Kent State UP, 2024)

August 31, 2024

High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac

Edwin P Rutan II
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In his recent book, High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor (The Kent State University Press, 2024), Edwin P. Rutan II reha…

Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)

August 2, 2024

The End of Victory

Edward Kaplan
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our inte…

D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023)

July 15, 2024

Truman and the Bomb

D. M. Giangreco
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, D. M.…

Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

June 25, 2024

Purpose and Power

Donald Stoker
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In our interview, I spoke with Donald Stoker about the changes in American grand strategy over the past 250 years and the major themes from his new …

M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)

June 22, 2024

Holding Their Breath

M. Girard Dorsey
Hosted by Andrew Pace

In Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Cornell UP, 2023), M. Girard Dorsey uncovers just…

Stuart A. Reid, "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination" (Knopf, 2023)

May 19, 2024

The Lumumba Plot

Stuart A. Reid
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Today I talked to Stuart Reid about his new book The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Knopf, 2023). It was s…

Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)

December 12, 2023

Cold Peace

Michael W. Doyle
Hosted by Andrew Pace

Michael W. Doyle's book Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (Liveright, 2023) offers an urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold …

Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)

November 11, 2023

Grand Delusion

Steven Simon
Hosted by Andrew Pace

A longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East The culmination…

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)

October 21, 2023

American Prometheus

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Hosted by Andrew Pace

The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. R…