Mike Elston

What really strikes me is how many useless, ignorant, illiterate people who do nothing else in their miserable lives except eating and pooping, attacked someone who spent her entire life studying and educating others. Someone who’s fluent in Russian, Chinese and Japanese, who’s a Doctor in History and author of publications: Dr. Sarah C. M. Paine (Sarah Crosby Mallory Paine) Professor Emerita of History and Grand Strategy, U.S. Naval War College Education • B.A., magna cum laude, Latin American Studies — Harvard College (1979) • M.I.A. — Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (1984), with certificates from the East Asian Institute and Russian Institute • M.A. in Russian — Middlebury College (1989) • Ph.D. in History (Russian and Chinese history) — Columbia University (1993) Academic Career • Associate Professor, Strategy & Policy Department, U.S. Naval War College (2000) • Professor (2006) • William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy (2014–2025) • Also held the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History billet • Now Professor Emerita Research Background • Approximately 9 years of research and language study abroad in China, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, and Australia • Conducts primary-source research in Russian, Chinese, and Japanese Major Publications • Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier (1996) — Barbara Jelavich Book Prize • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy (2003) • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 (2012) — PROSE Award for European & World History, Richard W. Leopold Prize, longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize • The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War (2017) • Co-edited multiple volumes on naval history and strategy with Bruce A. Elleman (blockades, commerce raiding, naval coalitions, expeditionary warfare, etc.) • Co-authored Modern China: Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present • Edited Nation Building, State Building, and Economic Development • Co-edited From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and Revolution Fellowships and Recognition • Two Title VIII fellowships (Hoover Institution) • Two Fulbright fellowships • Additional fellowships from Japan, Taiwan, and Australia • Former National Fellow, Hoover Institution Areas of Expertise Grand strategy, military history, geopolitics, maritime strategy, the history of China, Japan, and Russia, the Russo-Japanese War, World War II in Asia, the Chinese Civil War, and the Cold War. You, people, are molecules, restarted paramecium (don’t bother checking, you’re too dumb).