She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2010. Her work focuses primarily on the French army and its challenges and changes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as North American influences on French military reform. Her current book project, The Citizen Army of Old Regime France, traces the intellectual and cultural prehistory of the French Revolutionary army. Watch Osman’s four-part lecture at The Society of the Cincinnati. Reporting the Revolutionary War section: French-American Alliance.