Dr. Williamson Murray, Harold K. Johnson Professor of Military History, Military History Institute, U.S. Army War College

EDUCATION

B.A. Yale University, (1963)

M.A. Yale University, (1971)

Ph.D. Yale University, (1975)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – HIGHLIGHTS

Charles Lindbergh Professor, Air and Space Museum, 1997-1998

 Horner Professor of Military Theory, Marine Corps University, 1995-1997

Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, 1994-1995

Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, 1995

Secretary of the Navy Fellow, Naval War College, 1991-1992

Professor of History, Ohio State University, 1977-1995

Maintenance Officer, 314th TAL Wing, South East Asia, 1968-1969

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

Long Committee on Professional Military Education, 1989-1990

 Second Andrew D. White Prize in European History, Yale University, 1963

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-1939 (Princeton UP, 1984)

Luftwaffe (Nautical and Aviation Press, 1985)

Military Effectiveness, 3 vols, ed. with Allan Millett (Allen and Unwinn, 1988)

Calculations, Net Assessment and the Coming of WWII (Free Press, 1992)

German Military Effectiveness (Nautical and Aviation Press, 1992)

The Making of Strategy, Rulers, States, and War, ed. with MacGregor Knox (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Air War in the Persian Gulf (Nautical and Aviation Press, 1995)

Military Innovation in the InterwarPeriod, ed. with Allan Millett (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Air War 1914-1945 (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1999)

Articles

 "The Emerging Strategic Environment, An Historian's View," Strategic Review, Winter/99

"Does Military Culture Matter?" Orbis, Winter 1999

"Preparing to Lose the Next War," Strategic Review, Spring/97

"Computers In, Clausewitz Out," National Interest, Summer/97