Presented by

Daniel J. Moran, Ph.D.

Aug 7 ~ Part 1: Japan Among the Powers, 1853-1931
Aug 14 ~ Part 2: The China War, 1931-1941
Aug 21 ~ Part 3: The Pacific War, 1941-1943
Aug 28 ~ Part 4: Downfall, 1944-1945

Daniel J. Moran is Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Ca. He was educated at Yale and Stanford Universities, and has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Moran teaches courses and supervises doctoral research in strategic theory, American foreign relations, and the history of war and international relations since the end of the 19th century.