About the Program
Lawrence Kaplan recounts the life of Homer Lea (1876-1912), an American geopolitics scholar who traveled to the China to participate in the Boxer Rebellion and became an adviser to Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 Revolution. The author reports on Lea's great interest in military leadership and his authorship of texts that detailed weaknesses in American military defenses and predicted a war between Japan and the United States. Lawrence Kaplan discusses his book as part of the annual Association of the U.S. Army Meeting at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC.