Williamson Murray es Senior Fellow en el Institute for Defense Analysis de Washington, D. C. Es autor, entre otros, de Calculations (1992), Air War in the Persian Gulf (1995) y Air War, 1914-1945 (1999).
Allan R. Millett ocupa la cátedra General Raymond E. Mason, Jr., de Historia Militar en la Ohio State University. Entre sus obras destacan The Politics of Intervention: The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1906-1989 (1968), Semper fidelis: the History of the United States Marine Corps (1991), y For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States, 1607-1983 (junto con Peter Maslowski, 1994).
Ambos han colaborado previamente en la publicación de los libros Military Effectiveness (1988, 3 vols.), Calculations: Net Assessment and the Coming of World War II (1992) y Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (1996).