Dr. John Kuehn

United States Naval War College

Dr. John Kuehn currently serves as the Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King Visiting Professor of Maritime History for the Hattendorf  Historical Center at the U.S. Naval War College.    He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2004 after 23 years, serving as a naval flight officer.  Dr. Kuehn authored Agents of Innovation (2008), A Military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century (2014), Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns (2015),  America’s First General Staff:  A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the Navy, 1900-1950 (2017) and co-authored Eyewitness Pacific Theater (2008) with D.M. Giangreco, as well as numerous articles and editorials and was awarded a Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History in 2011. Dr. Kuehn’s latest book from ABC-CLIO is The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History (2020), co-authored with David Holden.