James Robbins is a columnist for USA Today. He is also a senior fellow for National Security Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council and a member of the advisory board to the National Civil War Museum. Formerly, he was an award-winning editorial writer at the Washington Times, professor at the National Defense University, and special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His newest book is the very highly regarded Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past (2018).