Brian McNeil is an assistant professor in the Department of Strategy at the Air War College. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin where he won the 2014-15 Barnes F. Lathrop Prize for the best dissertation written in the Department of History. Brian’s research focuses on the U.S. and the world with an emphasis on the challenges that humanitarianism and decolonization posed for American foreign policy during the twentieth century. He is currently revising his first book manuscript, which looks at the United States and the Nigerian Civil War.