Edward J. Drea
Edward John Drea (* 1944 ) is an American military historian .
Drea attended Canisius College in Buffalo . After military service in Japan and Vietnam , he received his bachelor's degree from Sophia University in Tokyo and his doctorate in modern Japanese history from the University of Kansas .
He was at the Combat Studies Institute of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and is director of research and analysis for the US Army Center for Military History and a historian at the History Department of the US General Staff in Washington, DC. He also taught at Army War College .
He dealt in particular with the Japanese Army and the Pacific War. In 2003 he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize .
Fonts (selection)
- Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945, University of Kansas Press 2009 (Modern War Studies)
- MacArthur's ULTRA . Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945, University of Kansas Press 1992
- with Ronald H. Cole, Walter S. Poole, James F. Schnabel, Robert J. Watson, Willard J. Webb: History of the Unified Command Plan 1946–2012, Washington DC 2013
- McNamara, Clifford, and the burdens of Vietnam, 1965–1969, Washington DC 2011
- with Lawrence S. Kaplan, Ronald D. Landa: The McNamara ascendancy, 1961–1965, Washington DC 2006 (Historical Office, Office of Secretary of Defense)
- In the service of the Emperor: essays on the Imperial Japanese Army, University of Nebraska Press 1998
- Defending the Driniumor: covering force operations in New Guinea, 1944, Washington DC 1984
- Nomonhan : Japanese-Soviet tactical combat, 1939, Fort Leavenworth, Combat Studies Institute 1981
- The 1942 Japanese general election: political mobilization in wartime Japan, Center of East Asian Studies, Univ. of Kansas 1979
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information in Robert Maddox Hiroshima in History. The myths of revisionism , University of Missouri Press 2007. Therein by Drea: Intelligence forecasting for the invasion of Japan. Previews of Hell
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drea, Edward J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drea, Edward John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American military historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |