The Huntington Prize Committee is pleased to announce the following recipients of the Huntington Prize for the best book published in the field of national security studies.

Eliot A. Cohen was awarded the prize for his book Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (New York: Free Press, 2002). This book speaks to our time by laying forth the enduring dimensions of the interactions between great leaders of democracies and their senior military officers. Supreme Command is an excellent example of the policy-relevant scholarship long encouraged by Samuel P. Huntington. Eliot A. Cohen is professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

Stephen D. Biddle was awarded the prize for his book Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton University Press, 2004). Dr. Biddle's book addresses a subject central to national security and all of political science. With an approach that combines an appreciation for the human and material elements of military power, Dr. Biddle compels our attention and advances our understanding of military power. Stephen D. Biddle is a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he researches and writes on questions of US national security and strategy.