Jacob Stoil

Jacob A. Stoil, PhD, is Research Professor of Middle East Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, and Chair of Applied History at the Modern War Institute, as well as Trustee of the U.S. Commission on Military History. Previously, he served as a Senior Fellow of the 40th Infantry Urban Warfare Center as well as an Associate Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS). He holds a doctorate in History from Oxford which focused on international military and SOF cooperation with indigenous forces in the Middle East and Horn of Africa, as well as an MA in History of Warfare and a BA in War Studies from King’s College London. Dr. Stoil has well over a decade of experience conducting research on the Israeli military and the broader Middle East.