Donald Stoker
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Donald Stoker

Donald Stoker is Distinguished Professor of National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University's Dwight D. Eisenhower School in Washington, DC. From 1999 to 2017, he was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College's Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In 2016, he was a Fellow of the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford's Pembroke College. During the 2017-2018 academic year he was the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria.

The author or editor of 13 books, these include:

'Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present' (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

'Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present' (Cambridge University Press, 2019, 2022).

'Carl von Clausewitz: His Life and Work' (Oxford University Press, 2014), which is on the British Army professional reading list.

'The Grand Design: Strategy and the US Civil War, 1861-1865' (Oxford University Press, 2010). This won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt award, was a Main Selection of the History Book Club, is on the US Army Chief of Staff's reading list, and is widely used as a text in strategic studies and history courses both in the US and abroad.

Photo Credit: Maria Sigala
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