Eliot Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, which he founded. A former counselor at the State Department, he has authored many scholarly works, including The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force (2017) and Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (2002).
