Nathan K. Finney, PhD is an Army Strategist (FA59) currently serving as the Director of the Commander’s Initiatives Group at the U.S. Army Forces Command. Nate was a founding executive board member of the Military Writers Guild, as well as a founder of The Strategy Bridge and the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum.  Nate is a managing editor at the British Journal for Military History, a senior mentor for the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) at the College of William & Mary, a non-resident research fellow at The Duke Program in American Grand Strategy; a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative; a non-resident adjunct fellow at the Pacific Forum; and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Nate is the co-editor and author of the book Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics, and the editor and author of On Strategy: A Primer. He earned a Ph.D. in History at Duke University in 2022 while also serving as a Goodpaster Scholar.

His most recent book, Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War, explores the creation, structure, activities, and impact of a key institution in the mobilization of the United States for the First World War, and ultimately the nature of American governance during wartime.

Nate is currently researching his second book, which focuses on Cold War Taiwan.