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

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, 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 The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

in 1972, followed by a doctorate from the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

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

Personal life

He is the father of the singer-songwriter Mike Doughty.

Awards and recognition

In 1986, Doughty received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the

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. The

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named him the 2006 awardee of the .

Selected books

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References

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