James H. Willbanks is the General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Prior to assuming the Marshall Chair, Dr. Willbanks was director of the CGSC Military History Department for twelve years. He has been on the CGSC faculty since 1992, when he retired from the Army with twenty-three years service as an Infantry officer in various assignments, to include a tour as an advisor with a South Vietnamese regiment during the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive. He holds a B.A. in History from Texas A&M University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including A Raid Too Far (Texas A&M University Press), Abandoning Vietnam (University Press of Kansas), The Battle of An Loc (Indiana University Press), and The Tet Offensive: A Concise History (Columbia University Press. He was an advisor to Ken Burns on the Vietnam War 10-part documentary that will air on PBS in the fall of 2017. He is currently working on a biography of Lieutenant General James F. Hollingsworth.