Dr. Sarantakes is a historian specializing in the World War II and Cold War eras and a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College. His books include Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan (University Press of Kansas, 2009) and Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and Joseph Stilwell (Texas A&M University Press, 2004). The views expressed here are his alone and do not reflect policy of the U.S. Navy or government.
