Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.

Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of What Good is Grand Strategy?

William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr., Chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.