Wayne E. Lee

I'm a professor of history at the University of North Carolina. Although I am a specialist in the military history of early modern Europe and America, I have since branched out into world and comparative military history, writing about Europeans, Mongols, Ottomans, Native Americans, and many more peoples in various contexts. My book *Waging War*, although originally conceived as a text for teaching world military history, goes much further than traditional textbooks. It contains much new research and reframes our way of examining the broad history of human conflict. Most recently, along those lines, together with three colleagues I wrote *The Other Face of Battle*, designed to remind Americans that most of the wars in our past have been fought NOT against states, or against enemies we expected, but against peoples from other cultures, fighting in ways we weren't prepared for. That unexpectedness then shaped the human experience of combat and the strategic outcomes. My *Barbarians and Brothers* is increasingly a standard in the field of early American warfare, but I always like to point out that it reaches well beyond the field's usual boundaries; it examines warfare in Ireland, Native American techniques of warfare, and of course the more usual Europeans in both England and in North America. . I've also worked as an archaeologist in various places, including Albania, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, and Loudoun County, Virginia. That work has influenced my historical work in various unexpected ways, but continues to be mostly a labor of love (our work in Albania was published in the book Light and Shadow, winner of the 2014 Society for American Archaeology book of the year award.) I was an officer in the U.S. army from 1987 to 1992, and served in the 1991 Gulf War. I blacksmith as a hobby, something which has also had interesting side effects on my historical work. You can see my academic publishing list at www.unc.edu/~welee Follow me on Twitter at @MilHist_Lee