Gregory W. Pedlow

Gregory Wick Pedlow (* 1949 ) is an American historian and former Army officer ( Lieutenant Colonel [ret.]). He was scientific a. a. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the CIA worked and finally Chief Historian at the NATO - HQ SHAPE .

Life

Pedlow studied history and political science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (BA 1970). He completed the ROTC program and was accepted into the Phi Beta Kappa . In 1972 he earned a Master of Arts degree in Modern European History from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. 1979 followed the Ph.D. in European history.

From 1972 to 1974 he served as an intelligence officer in the US Army . Then he was taken over to the US Army Reserve : He was u. a. employed as historian in the HQ United States European Command in Stuttgart; In 1998 he retired as Lieutenant Colonel .

Pedlow was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1975 to 1977 , where he carried out the research for his doctoral thesis ( The Nobility of Hesse-Kassel: Family, Land and Office, 1770-1870 ) in the Marburg State Archives . His further research on the subject of the Electoral Hessian nobility in the 18th and 19th centuries was funded by the Leibniz Institute for European History from 1979–1980 with a grant .

From 1977 to 1980 he was a lecturer at the University of Maryland European Division and from 1981 to 1985 Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln .

From 1985 to 1989 he was Staff Historian at the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA . There, with Donald E. Welzenbach, a solid elaboration on the U-2 program was created. From 1989 to 2015 he was Senior Historian in the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO near Mons in Belgium . In 1997, Pedlow published the key documents on the strategic concepts of NATO from 1949 to 1969, for which he is recognized in research.

Pedlow, married and father of two children, has lived in Emmendingen (Germany) since 2015 . He is a volunteer commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The Survival of the Hessian Nobility, 1770-1870 (= Princeton Legacy Library ). Princeton University Press, Princeton 1988, ISBN 0-691-05503-3 .
• with Donald E. Welzenbach: The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954–1974 . History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency , Washington, DC 1998. (unclassified) ( online )

Editions / Editions

• (Ed. In collaboration with the NATO International Staff Central Archives): NATO Strategy Documents, 1949–1969 . With a foreword by Javier Solana . Brussels 1997. ( online )
• with Christopher Bassford , Daniel Moran (eds.): On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington and the campaign of 1815 . On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington, and the Campaign Of 1815 . Createspace, Charleston 2010, ISBN 978-0-8061-4108-4 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• The landed elite of Hesse-Cassell in the nineteenth century . In: Ralph Gibson, Martin Blinkhorn (Eds.): Landownership and Power in Modern Europe . HarperCollins Academic, London a. a. 1991, ISBN 0-04-940091-6 , p. 111 ff.
• Putting the "O" in NATO: The Organizational Development of the North Atlantic Alliance, 1949–1956 . In: Hans-Joachim Harder (Ed.): From Truman to Harmel. The Federal Republic of Germany in the field of tension between NATO and European integration (= military history since 1945. Volume 11). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56490-0 , p. 153 ff.
• Three Hats for Berlin: General Lauris Norstad and the Second Berlin Crisis, 1958–62 . In: John PS Gearson , Kori Schake (Ed.): The Berlin wall crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances (= Cold War history series ). Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2002, ISBN 0-333-92960-8 , p. 175 ff.
• Concluding Remarks: Warfare in the Central Sector . In: Jan Hoffenaar , Dieter Krüger (Ed.): Blueprints for Battle. Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948–1968 . English translation edited by David T. Zabecki , University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2012, ISBN 978-0-8131-3651-6 , pp. 239 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gregory W. Pedlow: Marriage, Family Size, and Inheritance Among Hessian Nobles, 1650-1900 . In: Journal of Family History 7 (1982) 4, pp. 333-352, here: p. 333.
2. ^ ^{A b} J. Kenneth McDonald: Foreword . In: Gregory W. Pedlow, Donald E. Welzenbach: The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954–1974 . History Staff Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC 1998, n.p.
3. ↑ Gregory Wick Pedlow , ieg-mainz.de, accessed on August 1, 2016.
4. ^ Loch K. Johnson : The development of intelligence studies . In: Robert Dover, Michael. S. Goodman , Claudia Hillebrand (Eds.): Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies (= Routledge Companions ). Routledge, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-50752-3 , p. 19.
5. ^ Contributors . In: Jan Hoffenaar , Dieter Krüger (Ed.): Blueprints for Battle. Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948–1968 . English translation edited by David T. Zabecki , University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2012, ISBN 978-0-8131-3651-6 , p. 246.
6. ^ ^{A b} Helga Haftendorn : NATO strategy and national defense planning. Planning and development of the Bundeswehr under the conditions of a massive nuclear retaliation strategy 1952-1960 by Bruno Thoss; War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War. Threat perceptions in the East and West. (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations) by Vojtech Mastny, Sven G. Holtsmark, Andreas Wenger Review (Review). In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 47 (2006) 4, pp. 740–742, here: p. 741.
7. ^ Bruno Thoss : NATO strategy and national defense planning. Planning and development of the Bundeswehr under the conditions of a massive nuclear retaliation strategy 1952 to 1960 (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 1). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57904-8 , p. 10.
8. ^ Gregory W. Pedlow: Acknowledgments . In: Ders .: The Survival of the Hessian Nobility, 1770-1870 (= Princeton Legacy Library ). Princeton University Press, Princeton 1988, ISBN 0-691-05503-3 , pp. Xiii.
9. ↑ Scout History Association: Membership Roll ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , boy-scout.net, accessed August 1, 2016.