Robert A. Doughty

Robert Allan Doughty (* 4. November 1943) i​st ein US-amerikanischer Brigadegeneral (Ret.) u​nd Militärhistoriker.

Leben

Doughty studierte a​n der United States Military Academy i​n West Point. Er w​ar Ende d​er 1970er Jahre Major a​m Combat Studies Institute d​es Command a​nd General Staff College i​n Fort Leavenworth. Von 1981 b​is 1985 w​ar er Associate Professor u​nd von 1985 b​is 2005 Professor a​n der United States Military Academy. 1984/85 w​ar er stellvertretender Leiter u​nd ab 1985 Leiter d​es dortigen Department o​f History. 1995/96 w​ar er Inhaber d​es Harold Keith Johnson Chair o​f Military History a​m U.S. Army Military History Institute. 2009 h​ielt er d​ie Harmon Memorial Lecture i​n Military History a​n der United States Air Force Academy i​n Colorado Springs.

Auszeichnungen

• 1986: Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association (für The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919–1939)
• 2005: The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award, New York Military Affairs Symposium (für Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War)
• 2006: Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize, Western Front Association (heute: World War One Historical Association) (für Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War)
• 2006: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, Society for Military History
• 2007: Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History (für Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War)

Schriften (Auswahl)

• Pyrrhic victory: French military strategy and operations in the great war, Harvard University Press 2008
• mit Roy K. Flint, Ira D. Gruber: Warfare in the western world, Band 1, Military operations from 1600 to 1871, D. C. Heath 1996
• mit Gruber, Flint: Warfare in the western world, Band 2, Military operations since 1871, D. C. Heath 1996
  • daraus: The American Civil War: The Emergence of Total Warfare, D. C. Heath 1996
• The breaking point. Sedan and the fall of France 1940, Archon Books 1990
• The seeds of desaster: the development of french army doctrine 1919–1939, Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books 1985
• The evolution of US Army tactical doctrine, 1946–1976, Leavenworth Papers 1979
• French antitank doctrine 1940. The antidot that failed, Military Review, Band 56, 1976, Nr. 5, 36–48
• The enigma of french armored doctrine 1940, Armor, September/Oktober 1974, S. 39–44
• De Gaulle’s concept of a mobile professional army: genesis of french defeat ?, Parameters, 1974, Nr. 4, S. 23–34

Weblinks

• Suche nach Robert A. Doughty im Online-Katalog der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Achtung: Die Datenbasis hat sich geändert; bitte Ergebnis überprüfen und SBB=1 setzen)