Robert A. Doughty Explained

Birth Name:Robert Allan Doughty
Birth Date:4 November 1943
Birth Place:Tullos, Louisiana, U.S.
Education:
    Discipline:Military History
    Workplaces:United States Military Academy

    Robert Allan Doughty (born November 4, 1943) is an American military historian and retired United States Army officer.

    Early life

    Doughty was born in Tullos, Louisiana, on November 4, 1943, to parents John and Georgia Doughty.

    Career

    He attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1965. Doughty subsequently completed a tour of duty in Germany before deploying to Vietnam in an advisory role in 1968. Upon his return to the United States, Doughty pursued graduate study, earning a master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, followed by a doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1979. From 1979 to 1981, Doughty served a second stint in Germany. In 1985, he was named head of the history department at West Point, and retired from the position in 2005.[1] [2]

    Doughty devoted much of his career to studying French military actions during the world wars.[3] He held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair in Military History at the U.S. Army Military History Institute from 1995 to 1996.[4]

    Personal life

    He is the father of the singer-songwriter Mike Doughty.[5]

    Awards and recognition

    In 1986, Doughty received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association.[6] The Society for Military History named him the 2006 awardee of the .[7]

    Selected books

    Notes and References

    1. Doughty . Robert A. . Robert A. Doughty . Lance Betros . “Fighting The Wolves At The Door”: From Advisor In Vietnam To Department Head At West Point . March 14, 2006 . West Point, New York . December 17, 2021.
    2. News: Doughty, Robert A. 1943– . December 17, 2021 . Encyclopedia.com.
    3. Eugenia C. Kiesling. Kiesling . Eugenia C. . Illuminating Strange Defeat and Pyrrhic Victory : The Historian Robert A. Doughty . The Journal of Military History . July 2007 . 71 . 3 . 30052893 . 875–888 . 10.1353/jmh.2007.0212 . 159519771 . .
    4. News: Annual War Studies Symposium . 16 December 2021 . University of North Texas.
    5. Book: Doughty, Mike . The Book of Drugs . Da Capo Press . January 28, 2012. Boston, MA . 252. registration . 978-0-306-81877-6 .
    6. News: Paul Birdsall Prize Recipients . December 17, 2021 . American Historical Association.
    7. News: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize . December 17, 2021 . Society for Military History.
    8. Reviews include of The Breaking Point include:
    9. Reviews of Warfare in the Western World, Vol. I include:
      • Cohen . Eliot A. . Warfare in the Western World by Robert A. Doughty, Ira D. Gruber . Foreign Affairs . May–June 1997 . 76 . 3 . 128 . 10.2307/20048052 . 20048052.
      • Cooper . Jerry . Warfare in the Western World. Volume I: Military Operations from 1600 to 1871 by Robert A. Doughty, Ira D. Gruber; Warfare in the Western World. Volume II: Military Operations Since 1871 by Robert A. Doughty, Ira D. Gruber . Journal of Southern History . August 1998 . 64 . 3 . 514–516 . 10.2307/2587794 . 2587794.
      • Dennis Showalter . Showalter . D. E. . "Warfare in the Western World", vol. 1, "Military Operations from 1600–1871"; by Robert Doughty et al. (Book Review) . The Journal of Military History . April 1, 1998 . 62 . 2 . 388 . 10.2307/120728 . 120728. .
    10. Reviews of Warfare in the Western World, Vol. 2 include:
    11. Reviews of Pyrrhic Victory include:
      • Leonard V. Smith . Smith . Leonard V. . Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War (review) . The Journal of Military History . April 2006 . 70 . 2 . 487–488 . 10.1353/jmh.2006.0131. 159719489 .
      • Douglas Porch . Porch . Douglas . Learning That Fire Kills . The Review of Politics . 2007 . 69 . 1 . 165–167 . 10.1017/S0034670507000484 . 20452869. 143599133 .
      • Bach . André . Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty . Politique étrangère . 2009 . 74 . 3 . 678–681 . 42715670.
      • Implay . Talbot . Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty . The English Historical Review . June 2007 . 122 . 497 . 784–786 . 10.1093/ehr/cem120 . 4493926.
      • Young . Robert J. . Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty . The International History Review . 2007 . 29 . 1 . 174–176 . 40109922.
      • Mosier . John . Reviewed Work: Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty . The Historian . 2006 . 68 . 4 . 872–873 . 10.1111/j.1540-6563.2006.00169_46.x . 24453793. 218495117 .

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