NK Finney
@nathankfinney.com
Servant of the Republic | Fellow, Duke Program on American Grand Strategy, @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social, & the Pacific Forum | Ed., @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social | Pres, @milwritersguild.bsky.social | Historian of WWI (book @cornellupress.bsky.social)
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NK Finney
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· Oct 5
Orchestrating Power by Nathan K. Finney | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hard copies of "Orchestrating Power" are in the wild! I hear those that pre-ordered should be getting them soon. You only have a month left to pre-order and get your copies before the official release date: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hard copies of "Orchestrating Power" are in the wild! I hear those that pre-ordered should be getting them soon. You only have a month left to pre-order and get your copies before the official release date: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
“China’s present purge is remarkable. By some measures it is the largest since the era of Mao Zedong. The party expelled nine generals this month, taking the total to at least 22 since he came to power. His 3 immediate predecessors failed to remove a single brass hat.”
economist.com/china/2025/1...
economist.com/china/2025/1...
Xi Jinping’s latest purge: paranoid or purposeful?
What the biggest military crackdown in decades says about his strength
economist.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“China’s present purge is remarkable. By some measures it is the largest since the era of Mao Zedong. The party expelled nine generals this month, taking the total to at least 22 since he came to power. His 3 immediate predecessors failed to remove a single brass hat.”
economist.com/china/2025/1...
economist.com/china/2025/1...
“The military buildup in the region is the largest unrelated to disaster relief since 1994, when the United States sent two aircraft carriers and more than 20,000 troops to Haiti to take part in ‘Operation Uphold Democracy.’”
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela
The US military is upgrading a Cold War base in the Caribbean it abandoned 20 years ago. Experts say it’s a step towards sustained operations in the region.
www.reuters.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“The military buildup in the region is the largest unrelated to disaster relief since 1994, when the United States sent two aircraft carriers and more than 20,000 troops to Haiti to take part in ‘Operation Uphold Democracy.’”
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
My running list of fellowships and other opportunities has been updated, including a veteran fellowship recently highlighted by Jason Galui - the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program at the Bush Presidential Center.
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
Fellowships and Seminars
nathankfinney.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
My running list of fellowships and other opportunities has been updated, including a veteran fellowship recently highlighted by Jason Galui - the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program at the Bush Presidential Center.
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
“Finney tells an important story w/ excellent, razor-sharp focus. ‘Orchestrating Power’ reveals the key intermediary role CoDs played in the mobilization for WWI.” - Jennifer Keene, ‘Doughboys, the Great War, & the Remaking of America’
Pre-order now!
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November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“Finney tells an important story w/ excellent, razor-sharp focus. ‘Orchestrating Power’ reveals the key intermediary role CoDs played in the mobilization for WWI.” - Jennifer Keene, ‘Doughboys, the Great War, & the Remaking of America’
Pre-order now!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Pre-order now!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
And the final set of photos…more traditional ballet. Such a talented, awesome young woman! All the hard work she’s put in (especially the last two years) is evident! Super proud ballet dad 😍🩰
October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
And the final set of photos…more traditional ballet. Such a talented, awesome young woman! All the hard work she’s put in (especially the last two years) is evident! Super proud ballet dad 😍🩰
Tranche 1 of our dancer’s recent senior photo shoot. These are the more contemporary dance poses…waiting to get the traditional ballet pics. So proud of our amazing athlete!
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Tranche 1 of our dancer’s recent senior photo shoot. These are the more contemporary dance poses…waiting to get the traditional ballet pics. So proud of our amazing athlete!
“Orchestrating Power makes an original, deeply researched historical contribution to the field of American political development.” - Professor Elisabeth Clemens, author of ‘Civic Gifts’
(pre-order 40% discount: 09FORTY)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
(pre-order 40% discount: 09FORTY)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“Orchestrating Power makes an original, deeply researched historical contribution to the field of American political development.” - Professor Elisabeth Clemens, author of ‘Civic Gifts’
(pre-order 40% discount: 09FORTY)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
(pre-order 40% discount: 09FORTY)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
First IUS conference…and I felt very much at home. So great to see many friends and mentors…and give a quick talk on a book chapter that’ll be coming out October 2026!
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
First IUS conference…and I felt very much at home. So great to see many friends and mentors…and give a quick talk on a book chapter that’ll be coming out October 2026!
Reposted by NK Finney
We should really spend more time on teaching the English Civil Wars as they relate to the American Revolution.
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We should really spend more time on teaching the English Civil Wars as they relate to the American Revolution.
Reposted by NK Finney
FYI! The awesome @nathankfinney.com's awesome book "Orchestrating Power" has an awesome cover! Find more about (and maybe pre-order...) his upcoming addition to the #Battlegrounds series at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501783777/orchestrating-power/
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
FYI! The awesome @nathankfinney.com's awesome book "Orchestrating Power" has an awesome cover! Find more about (and maybe pre-order...) his upcoming addition to the #Battlegrounds series at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501783777/orchestrating-power/
Reposted by NK Finney
I just received my first copy of the book!
August 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I just received my first copy of the book!
Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Orchestrating Power by Nathan K. Finney | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
October 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Thanks to Susie Colbourn for the invitation to drive up & support a great group of students from across the Triangle—Duke, UNC, NC State, and NC Central—for a Bridging the Gap, Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, & TISS Foundations of International Relations Success & Training (FIRST) workshop.
October 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Thanks to Susie Colbourn for the invitation to drive up & support a great group of students from across the Triangle—Duke, UNC, NC State, and NC Central—for a Bridging the Gap, Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, & TISS Foundations of International Relations Success & Training (FIRST) workshop.
Reposted by NK Finney
A stunner sunset in the Blue Ridge Mountains tonight
October 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A stunner sunset in the Blue Ridge Mountains tonight
Only five more days to apply to join the great Board of Directors at @milwritersguild.bsky.social. Members interested in shaping the organization should self-nominate at the form below!
2025 MWG Election Nomination Form
Four positions on the Board of Directors for the Military Writers Guild are open for election - the President, the Vice President, and two board seats. If you would like to help lead the organization...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Only five more days to apply to join the great Board of Directors at @milwritersguild.bsky.social. Members interested in shaping the organization should self-nominate at the form below!
“you have little time you must give testimony
be courageous when the mind deceives you”
- Zbigniew Herbert
be courageous when the mind deceives you”
- Zbigniew Herbert
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“you have little time you must give testimony
be courageous when the mind deceives you”
- Zbigniew Herbert
be courageous when the mind deceives you”
- Zbigniew Herbert
Maintenance week as the half marathon gets closer…beautiful day around Bragg. Almost to autumn…
September 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Maintenance week as the half marathon gets closer…beautiful day around Bragg. Almost to autumn…
Reposted by NK Finney
One of Tilly’s key arguments in Politics of Collective Violence is that there’s no such thing as “a” civil war. What we call civil wars are aggregations of lots of different kinds of violence, at different scales, and involving different dynamics.
This was common in Iraq too. We once responded to a tip, raided the suspected house, then learned the occupant was guilty only of building a balcony that allowed him to see into his neighbor's back yard.
The neighbor had informed on him, hoping American soldiers would arrest him. We left.
The neighbor had informed on him, hoping American soldiers would arrest him. We left.
During the Spanish Civil War it was common for people to use the war as a convenient excuse to permanently settle grievances or just straight up steal their neighbor's property. Same in Afghanistan. An environment in which someone informs on you because they covet your wife or truck...very very bad
September 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
One of Tilly’s key arguments in Politics of Collective Violence is that there’s no such thing as “a” civil war. What we call civil wars are aggregations of lots of different kinds of violence, at different scales, and involving different dynamics.
We have 4 board seats coming open - including to replace me as President. I hope some of our great members that have the time and drive to support the community nominate themselves!
September 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We have 4 board seats coming open - including to replace me as President. I hope some of our great members that have the time and drive to support the community nominate themselves!
Reposted by NK Finney
Check out a set of published works from MWG members, including some of our newest members!
milwritersguild.substack.com/p/mwg-member...
milwritersguild.substack.com/p/mwg-member...
MWG Members' Submitted Works
XVIII: Welcome back to the MWG members’ published works newsletter!
milwritersguild.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Check out a set of published works from MWG members, including some of our newest members!
milwritersguild.substack.com/p/mwg-member...
milwritersguild.substack.com/p/mwg-member...
Solid 10 miles along the Cape Fear River today. Pace was slower than desired, but putting the work in. Half marathon in October is calling…
September 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Solid 10 miles along the Cape Fear River today. Pace was slower than desired, but putting the work in. Half marathon in October is calling…
Energizing first Board of Advisors meeting today for the Military Writers Guild! Such an amazing group of writers and leaders to help us bring the organization to the next level. Look forward to working with them in the coming years!
Board of Advisors — Military Writers Guild
www.militarywritersguild.org
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Energizing first Board of Advisors meeting today for the Military Writers Guild! Such an amazing group of writers and leaders to help us bring the organization to the next level. Look forward to working with them in the coming years!