C. Dale Walton is a retired Professor of International Relations at Lindenwood University and Senior Fellow with Lindenwood's Hammond Institute. He is the author of The Myth of Inevitable U.S. Defeat in Vietnam (2002), Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-First Century: Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective (2007), and Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World (2012).