John Hattendorf

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John Brewster Hattendorf (born December 22, 1941 in Western Springs , Illinois ) is an American marine historian. He is a professor at Naval War College , Newport .

Hattendorf studied at Kenyon College ( Bachelor Accounts 1964), at the Brown University ( Master Accounts 1971) and at Pembroke College of University of Oxford , where he received his doctorate in military history 1979th The subject of the dissertation was the British overall strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession . In between he served from 1965 to 1973 as an officer on destroyers in the Vietnam War : on the USS O'Brien (1965–1967), USS Purdy (1969–1971) and USS Fiske (1971–1972). In 1972 he was assigned to the US Naval War College as an instructor and research assistant to the President and promoted to lieutenant. In 1977 he became an assistant professor, now a civilian, and an associate professor in 1981. Since 1983 he has been professor of naval history at Naval War College, where he has also been head of the naval history department and director of the Naval War College Museum since 2003.

He was visiting scholar at the Military History Research Office , the University of Singapore, and Pembroke College, Oxford. Hattendorf received the Caird Medal from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , the Samuel Eliot Morrison Award from the USS Constitution Museum Foundation, the Mahan Award from the Navy League of the United States and the K. Jack Bauer Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History . From 2006 to 2008 he chaired the US Navy's Advisory Committee on Naval History.

He was Vice President of the Hakluyt Society , is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , served on the Council of the Navy Records Society and is a corresponding member for the USA of the Society for Nautical Research . In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College.

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He is co-author of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy and The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Warfare and editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (2007) and Classics in Sea Power (US Naval Institute Press).

  • with Robert S. Jordan Maritime Strategy and the Balance of Power. Britain and America in the Twentieth Century , Macmillan 1989
  • Editor with Malcolm Murfett: The limitations of military power , St. Mmartin's Press 1999
  • with B. Mitchell Simpson III, John R. Wadleigh Sailors and scholars, The centennial history of the US Naval War College , Naval War College Press 1984
  • America and the Sea. A Maritime History , Mystic, Connecticut, Mystic Seaport Museum 1998
  • England in the War of the Spanish Succession. A study of the English view and conduct of grand strategy, 1702-1712 , New York: Garland 1987
  • The Evolution of the US Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977–1986 , Naval War College, Newport Papers 19, 2004
  • Newport, the French Navy, and American Independence , 2004, 2005
  • Naval History and Maritime Strategy. Collected essays , Krieger 2000
  • Talking About Naval History. A Collection of Essays , Naval War College Press 2011
  • with Benjamin Wood Labaree, William M. Fowler, Jeffrey Safford, Edward W. Sloan, Andrew German America and the Sea. A Maritime History 1998
  • The evolution of the US Navy's maritime strategy, 1977–1986 , Naval War College 2004
  • Editor Mahan on naval strategy. Selections from the writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan , Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 1991
  • Editor with RJB Knight , AWH Pearsall , NAM Rodger , Geoffrey Till , Sainsbury: British Naval documents, 1204-1960 , Navy Records Society, 1993
  • Editor Maritime History , 2 volumes, Krieger 1997
  • Editor with Dean King Every man will do his duty. An anthology of first-hand accounts from the age of Nelson, 1793-1815 , New York: Henry Holt 1997
  • Editor: Doing naval history. Essays toward improvement , Naval War College Press 1995
  • Editor of US Naval Strategy in the 1990s. Selected Documents , Naval War College Press, 2006
  • Publisher: US Naval Strategy in the 1970s. Selected Documents Naval War College Press, 2007
  • Publisher: US Naval Strategy in the 1980s. Selected Documents , Naval War College Press, 2008
  • Editor with Richard W. Unger: War at sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , Boydell Press 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in Alastair Wilson, Joseph Callo Who's who in naval history , Routledge 2004
personal data
SURNAME Hattendorf, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hattendorf, John Brewster (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Western Springs , Illinois