Sarah Paine

American historian — professor at the Naval War College — author of The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 and The Wars for Asia 1911–1949 — the leading US expert on East Asian military history.

Creates the integrated East Asian war history framework — Paine's Wars for Asia reconceptualizes WWII in Asia not as a reaction to Japanese aggression alone but as a nested series of civil and international wars in China that Japan exploited, providing the most analytically coherent account of the period.