Douglas Porch

Douglas Porch
Born (1944-12-29) December 29, 1944
Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Ph.D. from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University (1971)
Occupation Military Historian
Professor
Employer Naval Postgraduate School

Douglas Porch (born December 29, 1944) is an American military historian and academic. He currently serves as a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is the former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs for the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.[1]

Biography

He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee in 1967 and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1972. He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, a guest lecturer at the Marine Corps University, a post-doctoral research fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Mark W. Clark Professor of History at The Citadel.[1]

Dr. Porch has written more than eight books and numerous other publications, mostly about French military history and French Colonialism. These books have been published in both French and English. In 1993 his book The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force received the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award.[2]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Naval Postgraduate School - Dr. Douglas Porch". Naval Postgraduate School. May 7, 2010. Retrieved May 10, 2010.
  2. "Distinguished Book Awards". The Society for Military History. Retrieved June 18, 2013.


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