Scott Silverstone, ASU Future of War Fellow, completed his book, From Hitler's Germany to Saddam's Iraq, on the flaws of preventive war as a strategic option to address a shifting threat environment. He is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Rupert H. Johnson Grand Strategy Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Silverstone is also the author of Preventive War and American Democracy, and Divided Union: the Politics of War in the Early American Republic. At the beginning of his career he was a U.S. Naval Officer flying with a P-3 Orion squadron in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, and he served as a crisis management officer in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
