RT-MEETING-MAR-22-2010

SPEAKER MAR 22 2010
DR. JEROLD BROWN earned his BA and MA at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and his PhD at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He taught history and served as Chair of the Social Science Department at Midway College in Midway, Kentucky, from 1978 to 1984. Since 1984 he has been a Fellow of the Combat Studies Institute and Professor of History in the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is General Editor of the Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Army (Greenwood Press, 2001), author of Where Eagles Land: Planning and Development of U.S. Army Airfields, 1910-1941 (1990), and Voluntarism, Planning, and The State: The American Planning Experience, 1914-1946 (1988). He has published more than thirty articles, essays, book reviews, and chapters in professional journals and anthologies. During his tenure at the Department of Military History he has taught 20th Century War: The American Experience; The Evolution of Modern Warfare; World War II in the Pacific and Europe; Irregular Warfare; and Transformation in the Shadow of Global Conflict. He has conducted more than 150 staff rides to battlefields around the world, including the Little Bighorn, Normandy, Jena, Verdun, the Ardennes, Westport, Pea Ridge, Wilson's Creek, and Attu. He served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970 as a light weapons infantryman and a Redeye team chief. He received an Honorable Discharge. He currently lives in Lansing, Kansas.

Dr. Brown and Kathryn Lerch

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John Wakelin

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Phil Elder

Dr. Brown and Board
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Paul Rogers

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Sue Elder