Donald Stoker

Donald Stoker is Professor of National Resource Security and Strategy and the National Defense University's Eisenhower School and a Senior Fellow with Atlas Organization, both in Washington, DC. From 1999 to 2017, he was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College's Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, The author or editor of 12 books, his revised 'Why America Loses Wars' is being released in paperback in 2022. His 'Carl von Clausewitz: His Life and Work' (Oxford University Press, 2014), is on the British Army professional reading list. His 'The Grand Design: Strategy and the US Civil War, 1861-1865' (Oxford University Press, 2010), won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt award, was a Main Selection of the History Book Club, is on the US Army Chief of Staff's reading list, and is widely used as a text in strategic studies and history courses both in the US and abroad. In 2016, he was a Fellow of the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford's Pembroke College. During the 2017-2018 academic year he was the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria.

Cambridge University Press is publishing his latest book: 'American Grand Strategy Since 1775.'

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