Antulio J. Echevarria, II.
Antulio Joseph Echevarria, II. (Born September 22, 1959 in Los Angeles ) is an American retired officer in the US Army , military historian , strategist and theorist. He has been editor of the US Army War College's quarterly Parameters since 2013 .
Life
Echevarria joined the US Army and studied at the United States Military Academy (BS in Engineering, 1981) in West Point , New York and Princeton University (MA in History, 1994) in Princeton , New Jersey . In 1994 he received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) on the subject: Neo-Clausewitzianism. Freytag-Loringhoven and the militarization of Clausewitz in German military literature before the First World War .
He was employed in various locations as a troop service officer (most recently as a lieutenant colonel ) in Germany and the USA, attended the Command and General Staff College of the US Army in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas and also earned a Master of Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania . From 1991 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor of European History at the United States Military Academy. In 1995/96 he was an S3 officer and from 1996 to 1998 a concept developer at the United States Army Armor School in Fort Benning , Georgia . From 1998 to 2000 he was speechwriter for the Chiefs of Staff of the Army , General Dennis Reimer and General Eric K. Shinseki . In 2000 he became director of National Security Affairs at the United States Army War College. From 2004 to 2013 he was Research Director at the Strategic Studies Institute there . In addition, he held the Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series at the Army War College in 2008 and was 2011-2012 Visiting Research Fellow at Nuffield College of Oxford University . Since 2013 he has been responsible for the quarterly magazine Parameters at the USAWC.
Echevarria published several articles in u. a. Journal of Military History , War in History and Journal of Strategic Studies and books on military history, strategy and theory such as Carl von Clausewitz .
Awards
- 1997: Moncado Prize, Society for Military History (for the article General Staff Historian Hugo Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven and the Dialectics of German Military Thought )
Fonts (selection)
- After Clausewitz. German Military Thinkers Before the Great War (= Modern War Studies ). University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2000, ISBN 0-7006-1071-5 .
- Imagining Future War. The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880-1914 (= War, Technology, and History ). Praeger Securities International, Westport 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-98725-1 .
- Clausewitz and Contemporary War . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-923191-1 .
- Reconsidering the American Way of War. US Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan . Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC 2014, ISBN 978-1-62616-067-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Antulio J. Echevarria, II. In the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Antulio J. Echevarria, II. In the German Digital Library
- Search for Antulio J. Echevarria, II. In the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Antulio J. Echevarria II at the United States Army War College
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Echevarria, Antulio J. II. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Echevarria, Antulio Joseph II (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American officer, military historian, strategist, and theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |