Robert A. Doughty

Robert Allan Doughty (born November 4, 1943 ) is an American brigadier general (ret.) And military historian .

Life

Doughty studied at the United States Military Academy at West Point . He was a major in the Combat Studies Institute of Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in the late 1970s . From 1981 to 1985 he was Associate Professor and from 1985 to 2005 Professor at the United States Military Academy. In 1984/85 he was deputy head and from 1985 head of the Department of History there. In 1995/96 he held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the US Army Military History Institute . In 2009 he gave the Harmon Memorial Lecture in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

1986: Paul Birdsall Prize , American Historical Association (for The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939 )
2005: The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award , New York Military Affairs Symposium (for Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War )
2006: Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize, Western Front Association (now: World War One Historical Association) (for Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War )
2006: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize , Society for Military History
2007: Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History (for Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War )

Pyrrhic victory: French military strategy and operations in the great war, Harvard University Press 2008
with Roy K. Flint, Ira D. Gruber : Warfare in the western world, Volume 1, Military operations from 1600 to 1871, DC Heath 1996
with Gruber, Flint: Warfare in the western world, Volume 2, Military operations since 1871, DC Heath 1996
- from it: The American Civil War: The Emergence of Total Warfare, DC Heath 1996
The breaking point. Sedan and the fall of France 1940, Archon Books 1990
The seeds of desaster: the development of french army doctrine 1919-1939, Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books 1985
The evolution of US Army tactical doctrine, 1946-1976, Leavenworth Papers 1979
French antitank doctrine 1940. The antidot that failed, Military Review, Vol. 56, 1976, No. 5, 36-48
The enigma of french armored doctrine 1940, Armor, September / October 1974, pp. 39-44
De Gaulle's concept of a mobile professional army: genesis of french defeat?, Parameters, 1974, No. 4, pp. 23-34

personal data
SURNAME	Doughty, Robert A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Doughty, Robert Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American brigadier general and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1943