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CONTACT INFORMATION

National War College: (202) 685-4427

EXPERIENCE

Brief narrative.

*Professor of Strategy, National War College, Washington D.C., 1999-.

*Adjunct faculty member, USMC Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA, 1995-.

Doctrine Writer (USMC) via Computing Technologies, Inc. (COTS) and Universal Systems & Technology, Inc. (UNITECH), 1996-1999.
     Award citation, COTS Employee of the Year, 1997

Associate Professor of National Policy Issues, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, 1994-96

Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs, and Director of Studies in the Theory and Nature of War, USMC Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA, 1992-94

Olin Postdoctoral Fellow in Military History and National Security Studies, Ohio State University, 1991-92

History Instructor, Purdue University, 1989­91

Officer, United States Army Field Artillery, 1981­86. (Tours in Korea, Germany; highest rank held: Captain.)
     Positions and awards

EDUCATION

B.A., History, College of William and Mary, 1978
Academic Honors for thesis: "Tactical Nuclear Weapons: An Introduction for the General Reader."

M.A., American Diplomatic History, Ohio University, 1981

Ph.D., Modern European History, Purdue University, August 1991
Dissertation: "The Reception of Clausewitzian Theory in Anglo­American Military Thought, 1815­1945."

PUBLICATIONS

Books:
The Spit­Shine Syndrome: Organizational Irrationality in the American Field Army (Westport,CT: Greenwood Press, 1988). See description.

Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). History Book Club selection. See description.

Editor, with Bolko von Oettinger and Tiha von Ghyczy, Clausewitz on Strategy: Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001). Also published in German and Portuguese: Clausewitz: Strategie Denken (Münich: Hanser Verlag, 2001); Clausewitz e a Estratégia (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Campus Ltda., 2002). Translations underway in Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, and Russian.

(Editor) Carl von Clausewitz and Arthur, Duke of Wellington, On Waterloo (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, forthcoming).

Internet:
Editor, The Clausewitz Homepage
     About the Clausewitz Homepage

"Department of Distance Education: Distance Learning Initiatives." This is a somewhat evolved version of my report, "DCS Distance Education Modernization Plan: System Description/Requirements," June 1996.

USMC Doctrine:
Contributor, MCDP 1, Warfighting, 1997.

Author, MCDP 1-1, Strategy, 1997.

Author, MCDP 1-2, Campaigning, 1997. (This is a thorough revision of FMFM 1-1, Campaigning, 1990.)

Contributor, MCDP 1-3, Tactics (1997)

Author, MCWP 5-1, Marine Corps Planning (Draft).

Author, MCWP 2-15.3, Ground Reconnaissance Operations (Draft, 1998)

Author, MCWP 3-2, Aviation Operations (Coordinating Draft, 1998)

Articles:
Biographical essay, "Carl von Clausewitz," in Frank N. Magill, ed., Great Lives from History: Renaissanceto 1900 (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989).

"Cohesion, Personnel Stability, and the German Model," Military Review, October 1990.

"Wellington on Clausewitz," in Gordon C. Bond and John Rooney, Jr., The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Proceedings, 1992 (Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University, 1993).

"John Keegan and the Grand Tradition of Trashing Clausewitz," War in History, November 1994.

"Reclaiming the Clausewitzian Trinity," Parameters, Autumn 1995.

Review essay, Carl von Clausewitz, On War (various translations and editions; originally published, 1832).Defense Analysis, June 1996.

"Doctrinal Complexity: Nonlinearity in Marine Corps Doctrine," in F.G. Hoffman and Gary Horne, eds., Maneuver Warfare Science, United States Marine Corps Combat Development Command, 1998.

"Clausewitz, General Philipp Gottlieb von," in William E. Simon, ed., Professional Military Education in the United States (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming).

Book Reviews:
Theodore Roosevelt, The Naval War of 1812 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987 [originally published 1882]); James Pack, The Man Who Burned the White House (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987), in Indiana Journal of Military History, vol.13, no.3 (1988).

John B. Hattendorf, England in the War of the Spanish Succession: A Study of the English View and Conduct of Grand Strategy, 1702­1712 (New York: Garland, 1987), in The International History Review, vol.X, no.4 (November 1988).

Charles W. Ingrao, The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform Under Frederick II, 1760­1785 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), in The International History Review, vol.XI, no.2 (May 1989).

Charles C. Moskos and Frank R. Wood, eds., The Military: More Than Just a Job? (London: Pergamon­Brassey's, 1988), in the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, vol.17, no.1 (Spring­Summer 1989).

Carl von Clausewitz, eds./trans. Peter Paret and Daniel Moran, Historical and PoliticalWritings (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), The International History Review, vol.XIV, no.4 (November 1992).

Peter Paret, Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), The International History Review, vol.XVI, no.3 (August 1994).

Jan F. Triska, The Great War’s Forgotten Front: A Soldier’s Diary and a Son’s Reflections (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), The Austrian History Yearbook, v.XXX (1999).

Victor Davis Hanson, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (New York: Doubleday, 2001), The Clausewitz Homepage, 15 January 2003.

Newspaper Articles
[NOTE: I am not responsible for the sometimes misleading titles of these pieces.]

"Our Military Defeats Itself," Newsday, 11 September 1988.

"How the Military Boosts the Nation's Social Goals," Newsday, 6 October 1989.

"What Do We Have to Do? Topple Hussein," Newsday, 5 August 1990.

"And Keep the Political Ends in Mind," Los AngelesTimes, 5 September 1990.

"A Job for the American Military," Chicago Tribune, 10 October 1990.

"War Protesters March to Wrong Drummer," Newsday, 16 November 1990.

"What Wars Can We Find for the Military Now?" Newsday, 17 September 1991.

"Somalia Puzzle: Can We Get Out?" Newsday, 8 December 1992.

"Victories Now Are as Heroic as Those Past," Newsday, 3 May 1994.

"Unity Over Using Troops is Rare," Newsday, 7 December 1995.

"Europe, Not `Indian Country,' Shapes the Army," Newsday, 26 September 1996.

"Dole's Loss Was World War II's Final Bow," Newsday, 11 November 1996.

"Use Brains, Not Fears, to Set Bosnia Policy," Newsday, 25 September 1997.

"Ryan Shows the Ugly Truth About War's Violence," Newsday, 3 September 1998.

"Reviving Draft Would Wound the Nation," Newsday, 2 December 1998.

"We Have To Go All Out In Kosovo," Newsday, 13 April 1999.

"Kerry Case Should Be Case Study," Newsday, 29 May 2001.

“U.S. Must Conquer Delusions on Fighting Terrorism,” Newsday, 19 September 2001

“War View: We can’t predict the outcome but action is vital,” BBC News, 26 October 2001.

"We're At War And It's World War IV," Newsday, 14 January 2003.

"Bushies Vex U.S. Military--but It Isn't War," Newsday, 3 February 2004.