Douglas Porch (born December 29, 1944) is an American military historian and academic. He currently serves as a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is the former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs for the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. __TOC__

Biography

He obtained his

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degree from the

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in 1967 and a

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from

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in 1972. He has been a professor of strategy at the

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, a guest lecturer at the

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, a post-doctoral

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at the

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in Paris and the

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Professor of History at

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. Dr. Porch has written more than eight books and numerous other publications, mostly about French military history and

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. These books have been published in both French and English. In 1993 his book ''The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force'' received the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award.

Bibliography

* ''Army and Revolution: France 1815–1848'' (1974) * ''The Portuguese Armed Forces and the Revolution'' (1977) * ''The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871–1914'' (1981) * ''The Conquest of Morocco: The Bizarre History of France's Last Great Colonial Adventure, the Long Struggle to Subdue a Medieval Kingdom by Intrigue and Force of Arms, 1903–1914'' (1983) * ''The Conquest of the Sahara'' (1984) * ''The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force'' (1991) * ''The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War'' (1995) * ''The Wars of Empire'' (2000) * ''The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II'' (2004) * ''Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble: The North African and the Mediterranean Campaigns in World War II'' Weidenfeld & Nicolson; First Edition (June 10, 2004) * ''Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War'' (2013)

References

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