I invite you to learn more about my teaching and research in Professional Military Education (PME)

Detroit Photographic Co. Cadets' quarters, U.S. Military Academy. United States Military Academy at West Point New York, ca. 1901. Photograph. Image via the Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication.

About my teaching and research

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Military History at the United States Army Command and General Staff College with an established record of teaching, research, and service in professional military education (PME). At the US Army Command and General Staff College I teach core and elective courses in the history of warfare from the age of Napoleon to the Global War on Terror. Additionally, I serve as a reader on theses committees for the degree of Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS).

Previously, as a member of the faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point, I taught two courses. In “The Army of the Republic: Leading Citizen-Soldiers” (HI101) Cadets studied the institutional history of the United States Army and the Army’s central role in transforming the Nation. In “History of the Military Art since 1900” (HI302) Cadets analyzed the great campaigns and captains of modern warfare, considered military strategy, operations and tactics, pondered the principles of war, and, in the process, acquired historical mindedness about the application of landpower. At USMA I also helped conduct and lead battlefield staff rides to Normandy, France, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

From 2020 to 2022, I served as a historian at the United States Army War College, one of the nation’s premier senior-service institutions for advanced officers in the Joint Force, international fellows, and government officials. At the USAWC I developed curricula in joint warfighting, multi-national coalitions, and the projection of military power. I taught postgraduate-level courses on a variety of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, ranging from the military campaigns of World War One to great battles and campaigns in American military history, even including a course on writing, digital media, and cultivating a professional online presence. At the USAWC I also served as a battlefield staff ride guide for faculty, students, and external groups. Finally, I directed postgraduate capstone research project requirements on the evolving character of war and staff integration from maritime, service-specific perspectives.

In May 2023, my monograph on joint and coalition warfighting in the China Relief Expedition of 1900 was published with the Strategic Studies Institute and the US Army War College Press. I am completing a book manuscript — a revision of my doctoral dissertation — on the US Army career of General John Fulton Reynolds.

 

Selected Instruction

  • The American Civil War (A654), United States Army Command and General Staff College (2024)

  • Advanced Operations Course: The American Way of War and Its Challenges (HI400), United States Army Command and General Staff College (2023-2024)

  • Common Core: History, Theory, Doctrine, and Practice (HI100), United States Army Command and General Staff College (2023)

  • History of the Military Art since 1900 (HI302), United States Military Academy at West Point (2023)

  • The Army of the Republic: Leading Citizen-Soldiers (HI101), United States Military Academy at West Point (2022)

  • Online Presence and Publication for Strategic Leaders (PR2299), United States Army War College (2022)

  • The Commander’s Art: Critical Thinking About Great Battles and Campaigns (WF2308), United States Army War College (2022)

  • Unleashing a Century of War: The Military Campaigns of World War One (WF2237), United States Army War College (2022)

  • Historian and affiliate faculty member, Seminar 13, United States Army War College (2021-2022)

  • Lesson author (with Jon Klug), Military Strategy and Campaigning (MSC), block three, MSC-21: “Land Operations,” United States Army War College (2021-2022)

  • Unleashing a Century of War: The Military Campaigns of World War One (WF2237), United States Army War College (2021)

  • Military Strategy and Campaigning, United States Army War College (2021-2022)

  • Introduction to Strategic Studies, United States Army War College (2021-2022)

  • Lesson author (with Thomas Bruscino), Military Strategy and Campaigning (MSC), block two, MSC-08: “Joint Functions and their Integration,” United States Army War College (2020-2021)

  • Historian and affiliate faculty member, Seminar 11, United States Army War College (2020-2021)