Education:
U.S.
Military Academy,
West Point, NY: B.S. in Engineering (degree received 1966)
University of Michigan Law School,
Ann Arbor, MI: J.D. (degree received 1973)
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ: M.A. and Ph.D. in American and military history (Ph.D. received
1998; dissertation on African American West Pointers during the 19th
century)
Publications
(partial list):
Lost Triumph: Lee's Full Plan at
Gettysburg and Why it Failed
published by
G.P. Putnam's Sons in April, 2005
West Point Warriors:
Profiles of Duty, Honor, Country in
Battle,
a bicentennial
history of West Point focusing on her graduates at war, published by Warner
Books in August, 2002 with 45,000 copies in print.
Iron Soldiers
published by
Pocket Books in 1994 with 80,000 copies in print; the U.S. 1st
Armored Division through the Gulf War
The Offering
published in
hardback by William Morrow in 1987 with 12,500 copies in print and in paperback
by Warner Books in 1988 with 65,000 copies in print; personal Vietnam memoir
Battles and Campaigns in Vietnam
published in hardback by Crown in 1984 with 30,000 copies in print and in
paperback as Battlefront: Vietnam
by Warner Books in 1991 with 65,000 copies in print; military history of the
Vietnam War
Papers and articles:
two “Essays on Strategy,” published by the National Defense University Press
(1990); various public policy papers for the Rand Corporation (1974-76); three
international tax articles for
European Taxation
(1973-74); an article
on Vietnam written in French for
Historia,
a French journal
(1991); over 50 newspaper articles and op-ed pieces in various papers including
The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal,
and
The Washington Post
Professional Experience:
Author:
various books, papers, and articles
(see Publications
above)
Historian:
US Army Center of Military History: researched, wrote, and
edited portions of various official books and other publications (1994-98);
adjunct professor of history at University of Mary Washington,
Fredericksburg, VA.
Policy analyst:
various agencies within the
Department of the Army including Programs Analysis and Evaluation (1981-83;
1989-92) and the Strategic Defense Command (1986-89)
State (Connecticut) and
National Director:
Vietnam Veterans Leadership
Program, a federal program funded as part of VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to
America (1983-86)
Attorney:
international corporate law
with the Archibald law firm in Brussels, Belgium (1977-78); general practice of
law in Amherst, Massachusetts (1978-80)
Policy analyst and graduate
student of economics:
Rand Corporation and Rand
Graduate School in Santa Monica, CA. (1974-76)
Editor:
European Taxation,
published by the
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(1973-74)
US Army Service:
Infantry Platoon Leader
and Advisor in Vietnam, decorated for service, valor, and wounds (two Purple
Hearts); Instructor
of French
language and literature at the US Military Academy at West Point (Military
service: 1966-69)
Languages:
Bilingual in French and English
Professional
Certifications:
Admitted to the Bars of
Michigan
and Massachusetts
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