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James S. Robbins

About James S. Robbins

James S. Robbins teaches International Relations at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Robbins is a former Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and frequent commentator on national security issues for The Wall Street Journal, National Review and other publications. Photos of Dr. Robbins from an event at the Union League Club on March 27, 2007<img src="/images/robb27-07.jpg"/> <img src="/images/robb27-07-2.jpg"/> <img src="/images/robb27-07-3.jpg"/> <img src="/images/robb27-07-4.jpg"/> More Photos of Dr. Robbins, from an author event on June 9, 2006 <img src="/images/JRsmall.jpg"/> <img src="/images/JRsmall2.jpg" /> A book event on July 1, 2006 celebrating the 143rd anniversary of Gettysburg<img src="/images/Robbins7-1-06.jpg" />

Cover of 'Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point'

hardcover, by James S. Robbins — Today’s Goat, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, is a temporary celebrity among his classmates. But in the 19th century, he was something of a cult figure. Custer’s contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to carouse at local taverns motivated his dramatic cavalry attacks in the Civil War and afterwards. And the same[...]

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