Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History

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The Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History is a scholar-in-residence program launched in 1978 in memory of General Harold Keith Johnson , Chief of Staff of the Army from 1964 to 1968 , at the US Army Military History Institute (USAMHI) in Carlisle , Pennsylvania was established. As early as 1972, an annual visiting professorship of the US Army Military History Research Collection (renamed USAMHI in 1977) was established as a direct precursor . This was first taken over by Theodore Ropp . In 2006 the company moved to the United States Army War College (USAWC), Carlisle Barracks . Today the chair reports to the Department of National Security and Strategy (DNSS) at USAWC. The aim was to integrate scientific military history into a military environment. This was made possible through the engagement of the most renowned American scientists in the field.

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literature

  • Harry P. Ball: Of Responsible Command: A History of the US Army War College . Expanded edition, Alumni Association, US Army War College, Carlisle 1994, ISBN 0-961-3301-1-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harry P. Ball: Of Responsible Command: A History of the US Army War College . Expanded edition, Alumni Association, US Army War College, Carlisle 1994, ISBN 0-961-3301-1-2 , p. 251.
  2. ↑ John E. Jessup : A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History . US Center of Military History, 1979, ISBN 0-16-072360-4 , p. 305.
  3. ^ A b Donald Alexander Downs , Ilia Murtazashvili: Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-military Students . Cambridge University Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-521-19232-3 , p. 292.