Douglas Porch

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

Douglas Porch (born 29 December 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.

Bibliography

• The French Foreign Legion: The Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force, (1992)
• The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871-1914, (2003)
• The Path to Victory (2004)
• The French Secret Services, (1997)
• The Conquest of the Sahara
• The Conquest of Morocco
• Army and Revolution; France 1815-1848, (1974)
• Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble: The North African and the Mediterranean Campaigns in World War II Weidenfeld & Nicolson; First Edition edition (10 Jun 2004)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Naval Postgraduate School - Dr. Douglas Porch". Naval Post Graduate School. May 7, 2010. http://www.nps.edu/Academics/centers/ccc/people/porch.html. Retrieved 10 May 2010. 

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Name	Porch, Douglas
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Date of birth	1944-12-29
Place of birth	Tallahassee, Florida
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