Douglas Porch (born December 29, 1944) is an American

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and academic. He currently serves as a Professor of National Security Affairs at the

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, and is the former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs for the

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Biography

He obtained his

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degree from the University of the South,

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in 1967 and a Ph.D. 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 Marine Corps University, a post-doctoral

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at the

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in Paris and the

Mark W. Clark Mark Wayne Clark (1 May 1896 – 17 April 1984) was a United States Army officer who fought in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. He was the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army during World War II. During World War I, he wa ...

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 French Colonialism. 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) * ''Defeat and Division: France at War, 1939-1942'' (2022)

References

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