David T. Zabecki

David Tadeusz Zabecki (born August 8, 1947 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) is an American major general (ret.), Engineer , military historian and writer .

Life

Zabecki joined the United States Army in 1966 . In 1967/68 he served in the 9th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War . Afterwards he was stationed with the artillery force of the US Army in Germany and retired from active service in 1969.

He was then a member of the Army National Guard , and in 1975 was promoted to First Lieutenant . He studied at Xavier University's Police Campus (BA 1972 and MA 1973) in Cincinnati, Ohio . This was followed by a system management degree at the Florida Institute of Technology (MS 1974) in Melbourne , Florida . Zabecki worked as an engineer for Rock Island Arsenal and Deere & Company in the USA and Germany in the 1970s and 1980s . He also taught at Florida Tech and the City Colleges of Chicago programs.

In 1985 he joined the United States Army Reserve . In 1987 he earned a Ph.D. in engineering from California Coast University in Santa Ana, California. From 1993 to 2003 he was Assistant Professor at the American Military University (online learning). In 1995 he graduated from the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1997/98 he was Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and from 1998 to 2000 Chief of Staff Germany of the US Army, Europe & Seventh Army ( USAREUR ) in Schwetzingen (Germany). From 2000 to 2002 he was Deputy Chief United States Army Reserve in Washington, DC In 2002 he was in a Graduate Executive Program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2002/03 he was again in Schwetzingen, this time as Commanding General. In 2003 he was Senior Security Advisor for the Israel Roadmap ; in the same year he was promoted to major general. In 2004 he obtained a Ph.D. from the Royal Military College of Science (UK). in military science . In 2004/05 he was Executive Director for the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the End of the War in Europe and in 2005/06 Commanding General of the United States Southern Europe Task Force Rear Airborne. In 2006/07 he was Deputy Chief of Staff for Mobilization and Research Affairs at USAREUR.

In 2008 he became Senior Historian of the Weider History Group . Since 2009 he has been teaching in this area a. a. at the University of Birmingham (UK). In 2012 he held the Leo A. Shifrin Chair in Naval and Military History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He is u. a. Member of the American Society for Quality , the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America . Zabecki is also the editor of Vietnam Magazine and the author, editor and translator of several military history books. The translation The Schlieffen Plan (2014) won the Arthur Goodzeit Book Award .

Awards

• 1988: General John J. Pershing Award
• Combat Infantryman Badge
• Defense Superior Service Medal
• Legion of Merit (with oak leaves )
• Bronze Star Medal
• Meritorious Service Medal (with 5 × oak leaves)
• Vietnam Service Medal (with 3 Service Stars )
• Armed Forces Service Medal (Bosnia)
• Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
• Army Staff Identification Badge
• German badge of achievement in gold

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed.): World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia (= Military History of the United States Series . 6). With a foreword by Martin Blumenson , Garland Publishing, New York 1999, ISBN 0-8240-7029-1 .
• with Bruce Condell (Ed. / Translated from German): On the German Art of War: Troop leadership . Lynne Rienner Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 1-55587-996-9 .
• The German 1918 offensive. A Case Study in the Operational Level of War (= Cass series, Strategy and history . 16). Routledge, London a. a. 2006, ISBN 0-415-35600-8 .
• (Ed.): Chief of Staff: The Principal Officers Behind History's Great Commanders . 2 volumes, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 2008.

• Volume 1: Napoleonic Wars to World War I . ISBN 978-1-59114-990-3 .
• Volume 2: World War II to Korea and Vietnam . ISBN 978-1-59114-991-0 .

• (Ed.): Germany at War. 400 Years of Military History . With a foreword by Dennis Showalter , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2014, ISBN 978-1-59884-980-6 .
• (Translated from German): Hans Ehlert , Michael Epkenhans , Gerhard P. Groß (Eds.): The Schlieffen Plan. International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I (= Foreign Military Studies ). The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2014, ISBN 978-0-8131-4746-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about David T. Zabecki in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for David T. Zabecki in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• David T. Zabecki at the United States Naval Institute