John Grenier is a prize-winning author and historian of early America. Dr. Grenier is the author of _The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814_ (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which won the Society of Military History’s Outstanding Book Award in American History in 2007. He is also the author of _The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760_ (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), which won the Wilson Award as the Outstanding Contribution to National Defense in the Field of Arts and Letters. Dr. Grenier took his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2009 after a twenty year career in which he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and served two tours as a professor at the Air Force Academy. He currently serves as the senior professor in American military history for Norwich University’s on-line M.A. in Military History (MMH) and M.A. in American History (MAH) programs, as well as MMH/MAH’s Capstone Director. He lives in Colorado with his family.