Elizabeth A. STANLEY is Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government, Georgetown University. She previously served as Associate Director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies. She has served in Bosnia, Germany, Macedonia, Italy and Korea as a US Army military intelligence officer, leaving service with the rank of Captain. Her publications include articles, book chapters and monographs about US military innovation, the impact of peace operations on military readiness and force structure, the media and the military, and military professionalism. She is a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Sandia National Laboratories and the US Army Science Board. She has also served on the executive board of Women in International Security (WIIS), and she has been a post-doctoral fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the G.D. Searle Foundation, and Sandia National Laboratories.