Robert F. Williams
Robert F. Williams is a historian with the US Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A former airborne infantry non-commissioned officer, with tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 2023. His work on has appeared in the Journal of Military History, Military Review, Parameters, War on the Rocks, the Modern War Institute, and Stars and Stripes. He is a historian of land warfare, with a particular interest in the organizational culture of the U.S. Army. His first book, The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America’s Cold War Army, was published in 2025.
Books
- The Pentomic Army : The US Army and the Nuclear Battlefield of the 1950s–60s Author
