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Dr. Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 1942) is an American strategist and historian known for his many publications on military strategy, history and international relations.
   Luttwak was born into a Jewish family in Arad, Romania, raised in Italy and England. He attended the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University, where he received a doctorate. His first academic post, before moving to the United States, was at the University of Bath. In 2008, he became a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C..
   He served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the US Department of State, the US Navy, US Army, US Air Force, and several NATO defense ministries. He was a member of the National Security Study Group of the US Department of Defense, and an associate of the Japan Finance Ministry's Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy. With three partners, he established and operated a self-sufficient forest-conservation ranch in the southern amazon basin.
   Luttwak has been a frequent lecturer and consultant, and has developed a reputation for original policy ideas, suggesting for example that major powers' attempts to quell regional wars actually make conflicts more protracted. His book is perhaps his best-known work; it has been reprinted numerous times, and translated into 14 languages. His "" is widely used as a textbook on the subject. The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third is controversial among professional historians. Luttwak was resented as an outsider and non-specialist in the field, but his book raised a lot of questions and started a whole new wave of scholarship on the Roman army and Barbarians on the frontier. Luttwak asked "How did the Romans defend the frontier?", a question that he argued had been lost in the noise of professional discourse of demographics and economics and sociology. Although many professional historians reject his views on Roman "strategy," his 1976 book has revitalized the study of Roman frontiers. Since the 1980s he's published articles on Byzantium and is the author of the forthcoming "Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire".
   Luttwak, during his childhood, spent a few years in Italy, between Palermo, in Sicily, and Milan. He speaks Italian and is frequently cited by Italian media on political subjects; he also co-authored two books in Italian (with Susanna Creperio Verratti, political philosopher and journalist): Che cos’è davvero la democrazia ("What Democracy really Is"), 1996 and Il libro delle Libertà ("The Book of Liberties"), 2000.
   He served on the editorial boards of Geopolitique (France), the Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Washington Quarterly. He speaks English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish and other languages.

Against humanitarian intervention

He argued that humanitarian intervention shouldn't happen at all. He claimed that it might be best for all parties to let minor wars burn themselves out.

Obama Editorial

On May 12 2008 Luttwak published an op-ed in the New York Times, claiming that Barack Obama was Muslim by birth because his father's family was Muslim. The editorial argued that should Obama be elected President, his status as an apostate would further damage American standing in the Islamic world. The article was heavily criticized with some readers chastizing Mr. Luttwak for spreading ignorance and bigotry about Islam. Others have pointed out that Mr. Luttwak was factually incorrect on several grounds: one has to reject Islam as an adult to be considered an apostate, and Obama's father was an atheist. Still others have pointed out that since Mr. Obama's father abandoned his family, Islamic law dictates that his mother's religion, Christianity, is controlling on the offspring.

Books

A Dictionary of Modern War (London, 1971), ISBN 0-7139-0130-6

The Strategic Balance, 1972 (New York, 1972), ISBN 0-912050-33-0

The Political Uses of Sea Power (Baltimore, 1974), ISBN 0-8018-1658-0

The US - USSR Nuclear Weapons Balance (Beverly Hills, 1974), ISBN 0-8039-0096-1

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third (Baltimore, 1976), ISBN 0-8018-2158-4

(California, 1976), ISBN 0-8039-0659-5

[1968] (London, 1979), ISBN 0-674-17547-6

(California, 1979), ISBN 0-8191-6010-5

The Israeli Army (with Dan Horowitz) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983), ISBN 0-06-012723-6

The Grand Strategy of the Soviet Union (London, 1983), ISBN 0-312-34260-8

The Pentagon and the Art of War (New York, 1984), ISBN 0-671-61770-2

Strategy and History (New Jersey, 1985), ISBN 0-88738-065-4

' (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987), ISBN 0-674-00703-4

(New York, 1993), ISBN 0-671-86963-9

(New York, 1999), ISBN 0-06-019330-1

Rev.Enlarged Edition (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002)ISBN-13: 978-0674007031 Further Information
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