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About Andrew Pace
Dr. Pace is a historian of the US in the world who specializes in the moral fog of war. He is currently a DPAA Research Partner Fellow at the University of Southern Mississippi and a co-host on the Diplomatic History Channel for the New Books Network. He completed his PhD in US history at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023 and he is now working on his first book manuscript about the reversal in US grand strategy from victory at all costs in World War II to peace at any price in the Vietnam War. His research has been supported by an Arts & Humanities dissertation fellowship, the Center for the Humanities and the Arts, and the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant Program at CU Boulder as well as the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, the LBJ Foundation, and the Charles Koch Foundation. Dr. Pace has worked as an intern for the Latino History Project in Boulder County, as a brick-wall genealogist for Ancestry, and as a manuscript editor for two books on the American Civil War. He was also 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 teaching interests center on US foreign relations, morality and war, World War II, the Cold War, and the history of soccer. Dr. Pace holds 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 historian of the US in the world who specializes in the moral fog of war. He is currently a DPAA Research Partner Fellow at the University of Southern Mississippi.
NBN Episodes hosted by Andrew:
February 8, 2026
The Power and the Glory
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…
January 21, 2026
The Most Awful Responsibility
Dropping the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was, arguably, the most controversial decision of the 20th century. The responsibility for that…
January 13, 2026
The Price of Truth
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…
December 26, 2025
Fallout
After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nucl…
September 10, 2025
Getting Russia Right
“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…
August 19, 2025
Scorched Earth
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 …
August 14, 2025
The Old Breed...The Complete Story Revealed
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.…
July 22, 2025
The Year That Broke Politics
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…
May 18, 2025
Statecraft 2.0
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…
May 13, 2025
Kent State
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…
April 27, 2025
The Battle of Manila
In our conversation about The Battle of Manila (Oxford University Press, 2025), Nicholas Evan Sarantakes explains how U.S. forces under General Dougla…
January 9, 2025
Spaces of Treblinka
In our conversation about Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), Dr. Jacob Flaws expands the spatial real…
September 6, 2024
Black Snow
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. …
August 31, 2024
High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac
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…
August 2, 2024
The End of Victory
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…
July 15, 2024
Truman and the Bomb
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.…
June 25, 2024
Purpose and Power
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 …
June 22, 2024
Holding Their Breath
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…
May 19, 2024
The Lumumba Plot
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…
December 12, 2023
Cold Peace
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 …
November 11, 2023
Grand Delusion
A longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East The culmination…
October 21, 2023
American Prometheus
The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. R…
September 3, 2023
On Nixon's Madness
When Richard Nixon battled for the presidency in 1968, he did so with the knowledge that, should he win, he would face the looming question of how t…