Professor Donald J Stoker
Dr. Donald Stoker is Distinguished Professor of National Security and Resource Strategy at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School of the National Defense University in Washington, DC. A 2016 Fellow of the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford's Pembroke College and the 2017-2018 Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria, he is the author or editor of over 70 publications on military and foreign affairs, including 13 books. His The Grand Design: Strategy and the US Civil War, 1861–1865 won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt award for the best nonfiction Civil War book of 2010, was a Main Selection of the History Book Club. His 2014 book Carl von Clausewitz: His Life and Work is on the British army professional reading list. His Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and U.S. Strategy from the Korean War to the Present, was published in 2019 (Cambridge University Press). A new edition followed in 2022. His most recent book is Purpose and Power: U.S. Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Books
- A Naval History of the Middle East 500-2020 Editor
- Expeditionary Police Advising and Militarization : Building Security in a Fractured World Editor
- Air Force Advising and Assistance : Developing Airpower In Client States Editor
- Naval Advising and Assistance : History Challenges and Analysis Editor
Series
- Modern Military Studies Series Editor
