Martin G. Clemis earned a PhD in history from Temple University in 2015 under the direction of Gregory J.W. Urwin. He is Assistant Professor of History and Government at Valley Forge Military College and Assistant Director of Research at the H.R. McMaster Center for Security Studies. He is also a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, Camden. Martin is the author of The Control War: The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968-1975 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). He is also a contributing author in Drawdowns: The American Way of Postwar (New York University Press, 2017), War and Geography: The Spatiality of Organized Mass Violence (Ferdinand Schoningh, 2017), and Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam Conflict (University of North Texas Press, 2019). Martin has had articles published in Army History and Small Wars and Insurgencies. His current research explores the intersection of war and agriculture during the Second Indochina War. Martin is presently working on a book project that examines the military and political significance of rice during the conflict.