Charles Edel
Charles Edel is an associate professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College. He served as a special assistant to the secretary of state on the Asia-Pacific region in the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning. He is the author of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic.
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