Alan Sabrosky

Alan Sabrosky is a retired Marine officer and former Director of Studies at the United States Army War Colleges Strategic Studies Institute, where he held the position of the Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He received the Superior Civilian Service Award in 1998. He has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point; Georgetown University; the University of Pennsylvania; and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His publications have mainly focused on alliance systems and unionization in the United States military. He co-authored a book called Prisoners of War?: Nation-States in the Modern Era. Sabrosky earned a master's degree in history and a doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan. He worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute for most of the 1970s and was appointed director of FPRI in 1981, but ran the organization into debt and resigned a year later. He has taught at Catholic University and Georgetown University. Sabrosky's work on alliance theory showed that a conflict escalates when a major power intervenes in a war between a minor state and another major state. He has identified three types of conflicts in this analysis: "localized wars" between the original belligerents, "expanded wars" which include several belligerents, and enlarged wars that include a major power on both sides of the conflict. In the book Blue Collar Soldiers: Unionization and the U.S. Military Sabrosky, who edited the volume, states that "military unions are simply too great a risk for a political democracy" adding that it would be "unwise to expect unions not to act like unions over the long term, and in doing so call into question the basis of our national security". Sabrosky has been critical of American Jews who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), but not in the U.S. armed forces. Daniel Flesch, a former IDF paratrooper, has called Sabrosky a conspiracy theorist and criticized him for writing that "a large majority of American Jews...