Homecoming Dialogues: Anglo-French Military Planning Before the First World War
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Oct 16, 2026
- 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
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Sullivan Museum and History Center
The Sullivan Museum and History Center is a state-of-the-art museum attached to Kreitzberg Library. The museum displays artifacts from the university collection and regularly mounts new exhibits. Visitors can learn more about university history and campus ties to major historic events.
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Sullivan Museum and History Center
Join Colonel Michael D. Krause, Ph.D., a Norwich alum, soldier and scholar, for a look into the war planning of the past and how it relates to now. Light refreshments provided.
Event Details
Lecture to be held in the Sullivan Museum & History Center Conference Room.
About Dr. Krause
Colonel Michael Detlef Krause, Ph.D., is a soldier‑scholar whose career spans combat leadership, strategic planning, and influential historical scholarship. Educated at Norwich University and Georgetown, he entered the U.S. Army with a historian’s discipline and a commander’s resolve. His early service in Vietnam, advising and leading ARVN units in III Corps, grounded him in the realities of modern conflict and shaped the analytical lens he later brought to the study of war.
Krause went on to command multiple battalions, teach at West Point, and serve on the Joint Staff, where he helped develop political-military simulations during a pivotal era of Cold War strategy. As Professor of Strategy and Military History at the National War College, he guided senior officers through the intellectual demands of high-level decision-making. During the Gulf War, he directed the Logistics Planning Cell in Saudi Arabia, contributing to one of the most complex sustainment operations in U.S. military history.
After retiring, he led global organizations, advised Congress, founded security and logistics firms, and continued teaching across leading military institutions. His writings on operational art, logistics, and strategy remain foundational contributions to the field.
Across five decades, Colonel Krause has shaped how America understands war — its history, its demands, and its future.
About the John and Mary Frances Patton Peace & War Center
The John and Mary Frances Patton Peace and War Center is a Norwich University academic center of excellence for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to advance interdisciplinary knowledge on the relationship between peace and warfare at local, national, and global levels.