The Thucydides Roundtable Oct 17: Meet our Panel!
[Mark Safranski / “zen“]
The long awaited Thucydides Roundtable is scheduled to begin Monday, October 17, 2016 and this seemed to be an appropriate time to introduce our participants. My thanks to T. Greer, Lynn Rees, Michael Lotus and Charles Cameron for helping assemble this group.
Our panelists are truly an impressive and outstanding group of thinkers, writers and scholars and I feel honored that they have agreed to be part of our roundtable and join us in wrestling with Thucydides to try to distill together an understanding from what the father of history deemed to be “a possession forever”.
Accomplished as they may be, our panelists hail from all walks of life and experiences. We have active and retired military officers, philosophers and scientists, scholars of war, strategy, languages and culture here. Some practice law, others are journalists, policy wonks, poets and expatriates in distant lands. Some panelists have long and distinguished careers and others are starting out and are already making their bones. All share in common a respect for the life of the mind and a willingness to investigate profound books that raise life’s deepest questions. I thank all of them for the time and intellectual energy that they are devoting to this important project.
A couple of brief notes: this list does not include a small number of special guest-posters who for various good reasons, will be entering the fray at a later date. They will be introduced with their post and the required biographical updates will be made here.
Readers who wish to follow along with us or engage in the comment section are cordially invited to so — as a rule the comments at roundtables can be as lively as the posts. A reminder, we will be using The Landmark Thucydides as our official text. Our “Marching Orders” and Roundtable schedule are here.
Without further delay – meet the panelists of the Thucydides Roundtable:
Major Joe Byerly is an armor officer who frequently writes about leadership and leader development on his blog From the Green Notebook. He is a founding member of the Military Writers Guild. He holds a B.S. from University of North Georgia and M.A. from the Naval War College. He currently serves as a Squadron Executive Officer in the 4th Infantry Division.
Charles Cameron is the Managing Editor of zenpundit.com. Charles has also posted at Small Wars Journal, All Things Counterterrorism, for the Chicago Boyz Afghanistan 2050 roundtable, and elsewhere. Charles read Theology at Christ Church, Oxford under A.E. Harvey, and was at one time a Principal Researcher with Boston University’s Center for Millennial Studies and the Senior Analyst with the Arlington Institute. Cameron is the designer of the HipBone Games, a three-time finalist at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Art of Future War contests, and a contributor to Robert Bunker‘s anthology Blood Sacrifices: Violent Non-State Actors and Dark Magico-Religious Activities (Terrorism Research Center, 2016).
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