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CURRICULUM VITAE

ALLAN R. MILLETT

Academic Record Woodrow Wilson Fellow; University Fellow; Mershon Fellow in National Security Affairs, Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1963-1966 M.A. and Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1963, 1966 B.A., DePauw University, 1959. Magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa

Employment

University Research Professor, University of New Orleans, 2011-Ambrose Professor of History and Director, Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans, 2006 -

Senior Military Advisor to the President, National World War II Museum, 2006 - Maj. Gen. Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Professor of Military History, The Ohio State University, 1993-2005, Emeritus 2006- Visiting Professor, Hawaii Pacific University, 2005- Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii, 2010-2012Adjunct Professor of History, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998- 2004Professor of History and Mershon Professor and Director, Program in International Security and Military Affairs, Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, 1974-1996; Associate Director, 1987-1996

Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University, 1969-1974 Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1966-1969

Military Service

Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Retired Reserve (1990- ).

Active duty (1959-1962) and Ready Reserve (1963-1990). Adjunct Faculty, Marine Corps Command and Staff College (1973-1978, 1982-1988); Commanding Officer, Mobilization Training Unit OH-4 (1978-1980); Commanding Officer, 3d Battalion, 25th Marines, 4th Marine Division, FMF, USMCR (1980-1981); Member, Advanced Amphibious Study Group, HQMC (1982-1988); Commanding Officer, MTU DC-7 (Historical) (1983-1988); Officer-in-Charge, Chief of Staff's Reserve Augmentation Unit, Headquarters Marine Corps (1988-90). Awarded Legion of Merit for distinguished service, 1989.

Publications

A. Books

Co-author and compiler with General Sir Julian Thompson, The Second World War in 100 Objects (Carlton Books, 2012).

For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America from 1607 to 2012 written in collaboration with Dr. Peter Maslowski and Dr. William B. Feis (The Free Press, 1984; rev.ed. 1994, rev. ed. 2012). Spanish language version published by Editorial San Martin, Madrid, 1986.

The War for Korea: They Came from the North, 1950-1951 (University Press of Kansas, 2010). Winner, Truman Book Award, 2012.

Military Effectiveness. 3 vols., (Allen & Unwin, 1988 and Cambridge University Press, 2009) co-editor with Williamson Murray and author of essay, “The United States in World War II,” and co-author with Williamson Murray of essay, “Military Effectiveness.” Sponsored by the Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Cantigny (90th Anniversary, Battle of Cantigny, 1918) (Chicago: McCormick Foundation and 1st Division Foundation, 2008).

The Korean War: The Essential Bibliography (Potomac Books, 2007).

The War for Korea: A House Burning, 1945-1950 (University Press of Kansas, 2005). Outstanding Academic Book, 2006, College and Research Library Association.

Co-editor and contributor with Jack Shulimson, Commandants of the Marine Corps (U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2004). General O.P. Smith Prize, Best Edited Book, 2004, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.

Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945-1953 (Brassey’s, 2002).

Drive North: The U.S. Marines at the Punchbowl, 1951-1952 (Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters Marine Corps Korean War Commemoration Series, 2002).

Co-editor with Lee Xiaobing and Yu Bin, Mao’s Generals Remember Korea (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001).

Co-author with Williamson Murray, A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War (Cambridge, MA.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000). Translated into Chinese and Spanish.

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Co-editor with Williamson Murray, Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and author of two included essays, “Assault from the Sea” and “Military Innovation Between the World Wars.”

Co-editor with Williamson Murray, Brassey’s Mershon American Defense Annual: Current Issues and Asian Challenge (Washington and London: Brassey’s, 1996) and author of an included chapter, “The United States and Asian Security.”

In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps, 1917-1956 (Naval Institute Press, 1993). General Wallace M. Greene Prize for Marine Corps History, Marine Corps Historical Foundation, 1993.

Calculations: Net Assessment and the Coming of World War II, co-editor with Williamson Murray (The Free Press, 1992). Sponsored by the Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Semper Fidelis: The History of the U.S. Marine Corps (Macmillan, 1980, rev. ed., 1991), winner, Ohioana Library Association Award for History, 1981; Notable Naval Book, U.S. Naval Institute, 1981; Outstanding Academic Book, 1981, College and Research Library Association.

A Short History of the Vietnam War (Editor) (Indiana University Press, 1978).

The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army, 1881-1925 (Greenwood Press, 1975).

The Politics of Intervention: The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1906-1909 (The Ohio State University Press, 1968).

B. Essays and Entries

Forewards to La Guerra Fria and La II Guerra Mundial. Editorial Sol 90 in collaboration with Time, 2011.

“World War II: The Asia Pacific Conflict” in Jeremy Black, ed., War Since 1900. (London: Thames and Hudson, 2010), 130-155.

“Korea and the End of the Cold War” in Malcolm Muir, ed., From Detente to the Soviet Collapse: The Cold War from 1975 to 1991 (Lexington, VA.: Adams Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis, 2006), 114-119.

“Eisenhower and the Korean War: Cautionary Tale and Hopeful Precedent,” in Dennis E. Showalter, ed., Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century (Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2005), 41-58.


“I Am a Child of World War II,” introduction to Spencer Tucker and Priscilla Roberts, eds., Encyclopedia of World War II (5 vols., ABC-CLIO, 2004), I, xxix-xxxviii.

“The Land War with Japan,” in Douglas Brinkley, ed., The World War II Memorial (Smithsonian Books, 2004), 129-167.

“Blood on the Risers: Allied Airborne Operations on D-Day,” in Jane Penrose, ed., The D-Day Companion (Osprey Books, 2004), 162-193.

“The Korean People: Missing in Action in the Misunderstood War, 1945-1954,” in William Stueck, ed., The Korean War in World History (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 13-60.

“Little Turtle, Blue Jacket, and the Second Tribal Confederation,” in Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce, eds., Builders of Ohio (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003), 41-59.

“James Van Fleet and the Reform of the ROK Army,” in Proceedings of The Military Role of the ROK-US in the Korean War Conference, Seoul, ROK, June, 2003.

“Defense Policy,” in Stanley Kutler, ed., Dictionary of American History (3rd ed., New York: Scribners, 2003) III, 533-537.

“The Significance of the Korean War in the History of Warfare,” in Dong-sung Kim, Ki-jung Kim, and Hahnkyu Park, eds., Fifty Years After the Korean War: From Cold-War Confrontation to Peaceful Coexistence (Seoul: KAIS and KRIS, 2000), 55-72.

“The U.S. Marine Corps: An Expeditionary Force for All Seasons and Almost All Enemies,” in Centre d’Etudes d’ Histoire de la Defense, Les Troupes de Marine dans l’Armée de Terre: Un Siecle d’ Histoire (Paris: C. Lavauzelle, 2001), 81-109.

Introductions to The Korean War, 3 vols. Korean Institute of Military History (Seoul: Ministry of National Defense, 1998-2000).

“The Forgotten Army in the Misunderstood War: The Hanguk Gun in the Korean War, 1946-1953,” in Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, eds. The Korean War, 1950-53: A Fifty Year Retrospective (Canberra, Australia: The Chief of Army’s Military History Conference, 2000), 1-26.

“Casualties,” “James H. Hausman,”“Frank E. Lowe,” and “Writing About the Korean War,” in Spencer Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Korean War, 3 vols., (rev. ed. ABC-CLIO, 2009), 112-113, 304-305, 524-525, 317-326 .


“Combat Effectiveness,” “Cuba: U.S. Military Involvement,” “John A. Lejeune,” “U.S. Marine Corps,” and “Marine Corps Reserve,” in John Whiteclay Chambers II, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Military History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 160-163, 195-196, 389, 413-414, and 418.

“Robert L. Bullard,” in American National Biography (24 vols., Oxford University Press and the ACLS, 1999), Vol. III, 901-902.

“Martin Clemens and Guadalcanal,” introduction to Martin Clemens, Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s Diary and Memoir (Naval Institute Press, 1998), 1-30.

“Understanding is Better Than Remembering: The Korean War, 1945-1954,” 7th Dwight D. Eisenhower Lecture in Military History, published by Kansas State University, 1997.

“Korean War,” “Friendly Fire,” “Combined Operations,” “Marines,” “Professionalism,” and “Reconnaissance” in Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker, eds. The Reader’s Companion to Military History (New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996), 98-99, 173-174, 246-249, 285-286, 370-371, 379-380. Also served on editorial board.

“The Marine Corps,” in Sam C. Sarkesian and Robert E. Connor, eds. America’s Armed Forces (Greenwood Press, 1996), 112-143.

“Combined Action Program,” and “The U.S. Marine Corps in the Vietnam War” and in Stanley I. Kutler, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (Simon and Schuster, 1996), 143-144, 303-306. Also served on editorial advisory board.

“The Congress and the Army” and “The Congress and the Marine Corps,” in Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, eds. The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (Simon and Schuster, 1995).

“Belleau Wood: One Man’s Initiation,” in Calvin Christman, ed. America at War (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995), 253-265.

"The United States and the Small Wars of the Twentieth Century," (with Jay T. Young) in Donald F. Bittner, ed., Proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the Society for Military History (Marine Corps University Press, 1994).

"General Robert L. Bullard," in Matthew Van Atta, ed., American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1994).

"The American Military as an Instrument of Power," in John E. Jessup, Jr., ed., Encyclopedia of the American Military (Charles Scribner's, 1994), 175-208.

"The Campaign in Europe, July 1944-May 1945," in Brig. Gen. J.L. Collins, Jr. and David Chandler, eds., The D-Day Encyclopedia (Simon and Schuster, 1994), 3-7. Also served as a member of the editorial advisory board.


"American Military History: Clio and Mars as `Pards'," in David A. Charters, Marc Milner, and J. Brent Wilson, eds., Military History and the Military Profession (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992), 3-21.

"The Constitution and the Citizen Soldier," in Richard H. Kohn, ed., The Constitution and the Armed Forces (NY: New York University Press, 1992), 97-119.

"The Study of Military History in the United States Since World War II," in P.H. Kamphuis,ed., Medelingen van de Sectie Militaire Geschiedenis: Vol.14 Military History Around the World (The Hague: Army Historical Section, Royal Netherlands Armed Forces for the International Commission of Military History, 1991), 109-129.

"Whatever Happened to the Militia in the History of the Revolution?" Three George Rogers Clark Essays (Washington, D.C.: Society of the Cincinnati, 1991), 39-63.

"Close Air Support in the Korean War, 1950-1953," in B. F. Cooling, ed., Case Studies in the Development of Close Air Support (Office of Air Force History, 1990), 345-410.

"Pacification and Nation Building: The American Experience in the Caribbean, 1898-1934," ACTA of the 1988 Colloquy of the International Commission of Military History (Ottawa, 1989) Vol. I, 236-259.

"Professional Military Education," (with Williamson Murray) in Joseph A. Kruzel, ed., American Defense Annual, 1989-1990 (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books

and Mershon Center, 1989), 175-193. "The Organizational Impact of Military Success and Failure: An Historical

Perspective" in The Reorganization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Foreign Policy Report, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 1986.

"Cantigny, 28-31 May 1918," in Charles E. Heller and William A. Stofft, eds., America's First Battles, (University Press of Kansas, 1986), 145-189.

"Over Where? The AEF and the American Strategy for Victory, 1917-1918," in Kenneth J. Hagan and William R. Roberts, eds., Against All Enemies: Interpretations of American Military History from Colonial Times to the Present (Greenwood Press, 1986), 235-256.

"Bullard, Robert Lee," in Roger Spiller, ed. Dictionary of American Military Biography (3 vols., Greenwood Press, 1984) I, 127-130.

"The Civil-Military Heritage of the Age of the Enlightenment: The Experience of the United States," ACTA of the 1982 meeting of the International Colloquy on Military History (Sunflower University Press, 1984), 528-537.


"Athena and Mars: American Military Education and Its Relationship to Public

Policy and Society" in Selected Papers From the Citadel Conference on War and Diplomacy 1978 (Charleston, S.C.: The Citadel, 1979).

"American Military History: Struggling through the Wire," in Robin Higham, ed., ACTA of the 1975 meeting of the International Commission of Military History (Military Affairs Press, 1977), 173-180.

"What Happened? The Problem of Causation in International Affairs," (with William B. Moreland) in Klaus Knorr, ed., Historical Dimensions of National Security Problems (University Press of Kansas, 1976), 5-37.

"Cleansing the Augean Stables: The American Armed Forces in the Caribbean, 1898-1934" in B.F. Cooling III, ed., Essays in Some Dimensions of Military History, Vol. IV. (Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army Military Research Collection, 1975), 123-141.

"Bullard, Robert Lee" for the Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement IV (Scribner's, 1975), 122-123, and "Ely, Hanson E." Supplement VI (Scribner's, 1980), 190-192.

"The United States and Cuba: The Uncomfortable Abrazo, 1898-1968," in Braeman, Bremner and Brody, eds., Twentieth Century American Foreign Policy (The Ohio State University Press, 1971), 420-470.

"American Military History: Over the Top," in Herbert J. Bass, ed., The State of American History (Quadrangle, 1970), 157-182.

C. Pamphlets

“Crossing the 38th Parallel: American Political-Military Decision-Making in Korea, 1950,” 8th Army Historical Pamphlet 1-98, Seoul, Korea, 1998.

Editor, Manning the American Armed Forces (Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, 1981).

The American Political System and Civilian Control of the Military: A Historical Perspective (Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, 1979). Commissioned by the President's Reorganization Project, OMB, 1978.

Military Professionalism and Officership in America (Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, 1977).

Academic Education in National Security (Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, 1977).


D. Bibliographies

Editor and Committee Chair (1991-1996) and compiler (1989-1991), U.S. entries, Bibliographie Internationale d'Histoire Militaire, International Commission of Military History (Berne, Switzerland) an annual literature review. Author of "Studying American Military History," Vol. XV, BIHM.

Co-editor and compiler (with Dr. B.F. Cooling III), Dissertations in Military Affairs (Kansas State University Library, 1972) with annual supplements in Military Affairs; Supplement One (April, 1973); Supplement Two (February, 1974);

Supplement Three (February, 1975); Supplement Four (February, 1976); Supplement Five (February, 1977).

E. Articles

“The Korean War,” History Now (Spring, 2012), online at www.historynow.org. Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, City University of New York.

“Who Wrote Corporal Si Klegg, and Which One?” Blue and Gray Magazine 29 (Autumn, 2012), 29-38.

“War Behind the Wire,” (Communist POW Revolts, Korea, 1951-1953). Military History Quarterly 21(Winter, 2009), 46-61.

“Woody at War,” Timeline 24, magazine of the Ohio Historical Society (April-June 2007), 54-69.

“The South Korean Army’s American Godfather,” Military History Quarterly 17 (Autumn, 2004), 26-37. An earlier version, “General James Van Fleet and the Rebirth of the Army of the Republic of Korea, 1951-1953,” appeared in Proceedings, 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Seminar, Military History Compilation Institute and USFK/UNC/CFC History Office, Seoul, ROK, June, 2003.

“Opposing Views: Teddy Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor,” Military History Quarterly 14 (Spring, 2002), 60-67.

“The Korean War: A 50-Year Critical Historiography,” Journal of Strategic Studies 24 (March, 2001), 188-224.

“Harry’s Police Force on Call: Truman and the Marine Corps, 1950-1952,” Military History Quarterly 13 (Autumn, 2000), Vol.13, No.4, 72-80.

“U.S. Interventions Abroad, 1798-1999,” Strategic Review 28 (Spring, 2000), 28-38.

“New Challenges Confronting the Reserves and National Guard,” Strategic Review 27 (Spring, 1999), 23-31.


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“Julius Caesar and the Conquest of the Northwest Territory,” three-part series on the generalship of Anthony Wayne and William Henry Harrison, 1791-1813, in Timeline, magazine of the Ohio Historical Society, Vol.14 (May-June, 1997), 2-21; (July-August, 1997), 2-19; and (September- October, 1997), 2-21.

“Captain James H. Hausman and the Formation of the Korean Army, 1945-1950,” Armed Forces and Society 23 (Summer, 1997), 503-539.

“A Reader’s Guide to the Korean War,” Journal of Military History 61 (July, 1997), 583-597.

“Remembering the Forgotten War: Anglo-American Scholarship on the Korean Conflict,” Transactions 1995 of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch (Seoul, 1996), 53-70.

"Remembering the Korean War," Joint Forces Quarterly, (Spring, 1995), 119-126.

"Why the Army and the Marine Corps Should be Friends," Parameters 24, (Winter 1994-95), 30-40.

"Reliving the Korean War: Gerald C. Thomas and the 1st Marine Division in Korea," Marine Corps Gazette 77 (July, 1993), 76-82.

"Belleau Wood: One Man's Initiation," Military History Quarterly 6 (Autumn, 1993), 69-77.

"Professional Military Education and Marine Officers," (Maj. Gen. Richard C. Schulze Memorial Essay) Marine Corps Gazette 73 (November, 1989), 46-56. "Lessons of War," (with Williamson Murray) The National Interest 14 (Winter 1988-89), 83-101.

"The Effectiveness of Military Organizations" (with Williamson Murray and Kenneth H. Watman). International Security 11 (Summer, 1986), 37-71.

"Military Reform in America," Air University Review 26 (September/October, 1985), 2-10.

"The U.S. Marine Corps: Adaptation in the Post-Vietnam Era," Armed Forces and Society 9 (Spring, 1983), 363-392.

"Research Sources for Marine Corps History," Fortitudine 10 (Spring, 1981), 10-12.

"Learning from the Past: Vietnam and Counterinsurgency," Marine Corps Gazette 64 (October, 1980), 72.


"Clio and Mars," Armed Forces and Society 4 (Winter, 1978), 335-340.

"The Study of American Military History in the United States," Military Affairs 41 (April, 1977), 58-61.

"Academe in Direct Support," Marine Corps Gazette 60 (August, 1976), 31-38.

"Arms Control and Research on Military Institutions," Armed Forces and Society 1 (November, 1974), 61-78.

"The Rise and Fall of the Cuban Rural Guard, 1898-1912," The Americas 39 (October, 1972), 191-213.

"The General Staff and the Cuban Intervention, 1906," Military Affairs 31 (Fall, 1967), 113-119.

"Military History and the Professional Officer," Marine Corps Gazette 51 (April, 1967), p. 51.

F. Works in Press

“Korea: The Ground Wars, 1948-1953” in Donald W. Boose, Jr. and James I Matray, eds. Research Companion to the Korean War (Ashgate, projected 2013).

“The United States and World War II” in Alberto Pellegrini, ed., Soldiers, Bombs, and Rifles: A Military History of the 20th Century (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, projected 2013).

“TR and His Generals: Promotion Policy and Army Reform, 1901-1909, Military History Quarterly.

G. Works in Progress

Vol. III of The War for Korea, under contract to the University Press of Kansas, to be completed in 2013 or 2014.

“The Incident at Chuam-ni, 1950,” article.

Two chapters in Clifford J. Rogers and James T. Seidule, eds., West Point History of Warfare.

A Short History of the Korean War, I.B. Tauris Short Histories Series (UK).


H. Book Reviews

Mid-Continent American Studies Journal; Military Affairs; Ohio History; Maryland Historical Magazine; Journal of American History; American Historical Review; The Americas; History of Education Quarterly; Aerospace Historian; Air University Review; Parameters; Washington Post; Marine Corps Gazette; Naval War College Review; Columbus Dispatch, Civil War History, American Neptune; Armed Forces and Society; Journal of Southern History, Journal of the Cold War, International History Review, Pacific Historical Review.

I Unpublished Papers and Lectures

“The First Marine Division at the Changjin (Chosin) Reservoir, Korea, November-December, 1950,” The Round Table Club, New Orleans, April 18, 2013.

“Truman and the Korean War,” Truman Presidential Library and the Kansas City Library Association, September 26, 2012.

“Theodore Roosevelt as Army Reformer,” The Theodore Roosevelt Association and The Pritzker Military Library, October 25, 2012.

“Translating World War II and Official History,” National Institute of Defense Studies (Japan) and the Corts Foundation (The Netherlands), Tokyo, November, 2012.

“ Military Effectiveness Revisited,” Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, November 2, 2012.

“ The Chinese Army in the Korean War,” Secretary of Defense History Symposium, The Pentagon, December 3, 2012.

“The 1st Marine Division in the Korean War,” Marines Military Memorial, San Francisco, February 1, 2013.

“The First Korean War, 1948-1950,” Korea Institute, University of California - Berkeley, January 31, 2013.

“Guadalcanal: The Ground Campaign,” The International Conference on World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, National World War II Museum, December 7-9, 2011.

“Ending the Korean War,” The Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, November 18, 2011.

“Allies of a Kind: The Canadian Army and the U.S. Army in Korea, 1950-1953.” In fulfillment of a grant from the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant Program, 2011.


“China’s War for Korea: Geo-strategic Decision, War-fighting Experience and High-priced Benefits of the Intervention, 1950–1953,” Korea: in from the Cold Conference, Australian War Memorial, October 6, 2011.

“Korea, the Unforgotten War, 1945-1954.” A lecture with handouts and PowerPoint presentation presented at: Lorenzo Cultural Arts Center, McComb Community College, McComb, Michigan, April, 2011; Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, March, 2011; Korea Institute, University of Hawaii, December, 2010; Miami University - Hamilton, Ohio, October, 2010.

“Do We Understand Civil Wars? Korea, 1945-1954, and the United States, 1850-1877.” Lexington, Kentucky Civil War Roundtable, January, 2011.

“The Ground War in Korea,” Conference on the Korean War, MacArthur Memorial Library, Norfolk, Virginia, November, 2010.

“Prelude to War: Korea, 1945-1950” and “The Korean War, 1950-1953,” Conference on the Korean War, Hillsdale College, October, 2010.

“The Korean War” in Conference on America’s 20th Century Wars Termination, Nimitz Foundation, Fredericksburg, Texas, September, 2010.

“The First War for Korea, 1945-1950” and “The Chinese in the Korean War,” Special Events Weekend: The Korean War, Christ Church College, Oxford University, April, 2010.

“The Korean War,” Conference on Teaching America’s Wars, FPRI Wachman Center and the McCormick Foundation, Chicago, May, 2009.

“The Korean War: Understanding Is Better than Remembering,” Pritzker Military Library, Chicago, April, 2009.

“Advising the Korean Army, 1945-1953: KMAG and Leadership Without Authority,” Virginia Military Institute, April, 2009.

“Finding the Forgotten War: My Search for the Korean War,” The Korea Society, New York City, March, 2008, and Phi Alpha Theta Lecture, The University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, May, 2008.

“Where Do We Find Such Men and Women? Reserve Forces Policy in the 21st Century,” Conference on Reserve Forces, McCormick Foundation, Chicago, October, 2007.

“Japan at War: Restoring Contingency to the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945,” International History Conference, National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, September, 2007.

“Military Professionalism in the U.S. Marine Corps,” U.S. Naval Academy, February, 2007.


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“How I Found the Korean War, Lost, Strayed, and Stolen,” Korea Institute, Harvard University, December, 2006.

“America and the Korean War,” International Conference on The Impact of the Korean War, National Institute of Defense Studies, Japanese Defence Agency, Tokyo, September, 2006.

“The Korean War,” U.S. Naval Academy, April, 2003; Hawaii Pacific University, June, 2003; University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, October, 2003; U.S. Military Academy, June, 2004.

“Military Innovation and U.S. Defense Policy,” Korean National Defense University, September, 2004.

“American Defense Policy in the 21st Century,” Korean National Defense University, July, 2003.

“Missing in Action: The Korean People in the Korean War, 1945-1954,” Korean War Conference, Texas A&M University, October 21, 2000, and at Wittenberg University, October 26, 2000.

“Fighting the Next War: Coalition Leadership in the Cold War: Korea, 1945-1953,” Robert Roberge Memorial Lecture, Army War College, September 28, 2000.

Lecture Series at the National Institute of Defence Studies, Tokyo, Japan. September 4-9, 2000: “American Strategy in the 19th Century,” “The Asia-Pacific War,” and “The Korean War.”

“American Defense Policy and the Election of 2000,” Korean National Defense University, Seoul, September 18, 2000.

“The Forgotten Army in the Misunderstood War: The South Korean Army at War, 1945-1953,” Chief of the Australian Army’s Annual Military History Conference, Canberra, July 19, 2000.

“The Significance of the Korean War in the History of Warfare,” Fifty Years After the Korean War Conference, The Korean Association of International Studies and the Korean Research Institute for Strategy, July 14, 2000.

“What I Know Now About the Korean War,” 5th Lecture in Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, March 23, 2000.

“Ending the Korean War,” War Termination Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel, June-July, 1999.

“The Sorry Mess: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Korean War, 1950-1953,” Eisenhower Conference 1998, Eisenhower National Historic Site, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1998.


“Understanding is Better than Remembering: The Korean War,” Col. John B. McKinney Lecture, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, November 11, 1997, and North Texas University Military History Conference, October 1, 1998.

“Tracks in the Paddies: Tanks in Korea, 1950-1953,” Commander’s Call, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army National Training Center, Ft. Irwin, California, March 6, 1997.

“The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Politics of Innovation,” Field Grade Commander’s Call, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army National Training Center, Ft. Irwin, California, March 7, 1997.

“American Civil-Military Relations,” Marine Corps General Officers’ Symposium, Washington, D.C., September, 1995.

“What the United States Did to World War II and What the War Did to Us,” Ohio Historical Society, September, 1995; and Charles Johnson Memorial Lecture, Center for War and Society, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, May, 2002.

"Crossing the 38th Parallel: Decision-Making in the American Armed Forces, 1950," Korea Military Academy and Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, Seoul, Korea, December, 1994.

"Military Innovation," Israeli Institute of Military Studies, Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel, July, 1993, and Air War College, January, 1996.

"Military History and the New World Order," 19th Colloquy, International Commission of Military History," Istanbul, Turkey, July, 1993.

"Defense Reform and American Politics, 1980-1992," Shilla Strategy Group, Korean International Studies Institute, and Sejong Institute,Seoul, Korea, September, 1992.

"The Gulf War and American Defense Policy," June 15-17, 1991, American Cultural Centers in Pusan, Kwangju, and Taegu, Korea.

"The Right War: The Korean War and the Revolution in American Defense Policy, 1945-1955, 3rd Annual Meeting, Korean War Studies Association, Seoul, Korea, July, 1991.

"The Constitution and the Citizen-Soldier," U. S. Army Center of Military History Bicentennial Lectures, June, 1987.

"Military Effectiveness: An Historical Assessment," Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C., February, 1987.


"The Impact of the Vietnam War on the American Armed Forces," Naval War College, February, 1986.

"The Organizational Impact on Military Success and Failure: An Historical Perspective," Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis Conference, "Organizing for National Security: The Role of the JCS," January, 1986.

"The Development of the American Armed Forces," Bexley (Ohio) Heritage Lectures series, November, 1985.

"The Marine Corps and the Golden Age of Amphibious Warfare," Marine Corps Command and Staff College, October 1984.

"Revolutionary War and Low Intensity Conflict: The Marine Corps in the Caribbean," Army War College, February 1983.

"The Impact of Civilian Control on American Military Policy," Squadron Officers School, Air University, June, 1982 and April, 1983.

"Strategy in the Modern Age," Air War College, October, 1982.

"Swabbies and Jarheads: Marine Corps-Navy Antagonism in Historical Perspective," U.S. Naval Academy, February, 1981.

"Exploiting the Doggies: Marine Corps-Army Relations and Inter-service Politics," February, 1981, Army War College.

"The National Guard and the Total Force Concept: A Historical Perspective," 101st General Conference of the National Guard Association of the United States, October, 1979.

"Broken Shaft or Shield of the Republic? The Militia and American Military Policy," Third Annual Eleazor D. Wood Memorial Lecture, Bowling Green State University, October, 1978.

"The Problem of Writing the Institutional History of the American Armed Forces," U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1977.

"The Development of the Military Profession in America," National War College, 1976 and 1977.

"Theodore Roosevelt and His Generals: The Politics of Promotion to Brigadier General in the U.S. Army, 1901-1909," Indiana University, 1974; Army Military History Institute, 1984; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986.

"Strategy and Force Structure in the History of American Military Policy," National Security Studies Seminar, U.S. Military Academy, 1973.


"Group Research, Inter-Disciplinary Research and National Security Studies," Army War College Faculty, 1973.

"Graham Allison, The Western Front, and the A.E.F.: Over the Paradigm and into the Wire," National Security Studies seminar, U.S. Military Academy, 1972.

"From Altruism to Self-Interest: The American Occupations of Cuba, 1898-1902 and 1906-1909," Organization of American Historians Convention, 1972.

Advisory Associations

Consultant, Documentary Films: “Hold at All Costs: The Defense of Outpost Harry,” produced by Dinifilms (2011). “Tank Battles of Korea,” in Greatest Tank Battles series, produced by Breakthrough Entertainment (2011). “MacArthur’s Great Gamble” (Inchon, 1950), in Edge of War series, produced by Partners in Motion (2012).

Pritzker Military Library, 2008-

The National Museum of Americans at War, Virginia, 2007.

Mayor’s Military Advisory Committee, City of New Orleans, 2007-

Presidential Counselor, National World War II Museum, 2007-

National Museum of American History and Culture, 2002.

National World War II Museum, New Orleans, 2000-2005. Chair, Historical Advisory Committee, 2000 - 2005. Co-chair, International Military History Conferences, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012.

To the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army in re: Theodore Roosevelt and the Medal of Honor, 1898. Written report, 1999.

To the Korean Institute of Military History in re: revision and translation of The Korean War (1999-2000). Member of editorial team on Volumes II and III, 1997-1999. Arranged for American edition through University of Nebraska Press.

To Professor Charles Messenger, ed., Reader’s Guide to Military History (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999).

To the U.S. Cavalry Association, 1997-.

To Professor Spencer Tucker, ed., Encyclopedia of the Korean War (ABC CLIO, 2000), 1998-1999.


To Professors Richard Kohn and Peter D. Feaver, co-principal investigators, Triangle Inter-University Security Studies Seminar, Civil-Military Relations Project (Smith-Richardson Foundation), 1997-1999. Two conferences, studies reviewer, and commentator.

To the Research Institute on National Security Studies, National Defense University and Korean Institute for Defense Analysis, Ministry of Defense, Republic of Korea, 1992 - 2003, on faculty development, English language publication, US-ROK relations.

To the Chief, Joint United States Military Assistance Group - Korea and Korea Institute, Harvard University on the history of US-ROK military relations, 1945-1953, and the commemoration of the service of the Korean Military Assistance Group, 1945-1953.

Post-doctoral Fellowships

Korea Foundation Distinguished Scholar (1996)Fulbright Distinguished Professor, Korea (1991)University of Missouri Research Council (1968) National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar Fellowship (1969) American Philosophical Society (1969)

Professional Affiliations

The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (executive council, 1972-1974, 1978-2004); Chairman, Section on Military Studies, International Studies Association (1977-1979); Chairman, Marine Corps Conference on Military and Naval History (1972); U.S. Commission on Military History (1972 - ), Vice President (1995-1999), President (1999-2003); U.S. Naval Institute; American Military Institute (trustee, 1978-1985, 1991-1999, president, 1985-1989); American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; Marine Corps Association; Ohio Academy of History; Company of Military Historians; Chairman, Ohio Arms Control Seminar (1976-1986); Board of Visitors, University of Pittsburgh Center for Arms Control and International Security Studies (1976-1980); Associate Editor, Armed Forces and Society (1980-2000); Fellow, Royal United Service Institute; Founding member and trustee, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation; Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; advisor, University Press of Kansas; editorial advisor, Military History Quarterly; consultant and columnist, Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Wall Street Journal.


University Activities (The Ohio State University, 1969-2005)

Director of Introductory Instruction, 1969-1974; departmental committees on graduate awards, curriculum, promotion and tenure, introductory instruction, and graduate programs; College of Humanities committee on instruction, 1970-1973 and promotion and tenure, 1978-1980; faculty advisor, UVC student council, 1972-1974; faculty advisor, Ohio Leathernecks Club, (1980-1992); Chair, United Way Campaign, College of Humanities, 1992; Research Committee, College of Humanities, 1992-1995; Slavic Language and Literature Departmental Review Committee, 1995-1996; University Committee on ROTC, 1986-1992, 1996-2000; President's Committee on Excellence, 1989.

Recognitions and Activities

Harry S. Truman Library Institute, Truman Book Award for The War for Korea; They Came from the North, 1950-1951 (2010), 2012.

John Dolibois History Prize, Miami University - Hamilton, Ohio for achievement in public history, October 27, 2010.

Doctorate Honoris Causa, Royal Military Academy, Belgium, 2009.

Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, 2008.

Secretary of Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Civilian Service, 2006.

First Vice-President and Trustee, International Commission of Military History, 2005-2010.

“Bucket and Dipper,” Ohio State University (Undergraduate Honor Society), 2005.

Doctor of Letters, DePauw University, 2001.

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, Society for Military History, 2004, for lifetime contributions to the study of military history.

Clio Award, Outstanding Faculty, Phi Alpha Theta, The Ohio State University, 1998.

Mortar Board/Sphinx Outstanding Teacher, 1996.

The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award, 1994.

Victor Gondos Award for Distinguished Service, Society for Military History, 1994.

The Ohio State University Distinguished Teaching Award, 1983.


President, Central Ohio Chapter, Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association, 1974-1976, 1978-1981. 4th District Director, National Board of Directors, 1985-86. 1st Vice President, 1986-1987. National President, 1987-1988. Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, 1988-1990.

President, Central Ohio DePauw University Alumni Club, 1977-1980.

Volunteer football and baseball coach, Upper Arlington Athletic Association, 1970-1981.

Member of the board of trustees and volunteer probation counselor, Franklin County Juvenile Probation Council, 1970-1973.

"Outstanding Young Men of the United States," 1969.

Foreign Travel and Study (since 1975)

Less than a month (accumulated): Norway, Finland, Russia, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Syria, India, Singapore, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Panama, Mexico, Czech Republic, Jordan, Venezuela, Aruba, Egypt, Lebanon, Romania, Morocco, South Africa, Brazil, Bulgaria

More than a month (accumulated): Great Britain, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Portugal, Belgium, Israel, Japan, Greece

More than a year (accumulated): Republic of Korea

Office: Eisenhower Center for American Studies University of New Orleans 113 Liberal Arts Building New Orleans, LA 70148

(504) 280-6152 (504) 280-6883 (fax)

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Personal Information

Married: Martha E. Farley-Millett (1980)One Daughter: Eve Noelle Farley Millett (born 1990)Two Sons: Michael John Millett (born 1961) Douglas Tyler Millett (born 1964)


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