Navy’s current trajectory may remind the reader of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) prior to the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific in late 1941. Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy, or the U.S. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Marine Corps University, the U.S. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author. He wishes to thank Jonathan House and Steve Wills for reviewing this manuscript and making helpful suggestions. His next book, Strategy in Crisis: The War in the Pacific, 1937–1945, will be released this fall by Naval Institute Press. His 2022 article “Zumwalt, Holloway, and the Soviet Navy Threat Leadership in a Time of Strategic, Social, and Cultural Change,” published in the Journal of Advanced Military Studies by Marine Corps University Press, received the Society for Military History’s 2023 Vandervort Prize.

He has published numerous articles and editorials and was awarded a Moncado Prize by the Society for Military History in 2011. Navy, 1900–1950 (2017), and The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History (2020), coauthored with David Holden. Giangreco 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 U.S. His books include Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy (2008) Eyewitness Pacific Theater: Firsthand Accounts of the War in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the Atomic Bombs (2008), coauthored with D.M. He has taught a variety of subjects, including military history, at the CGSC since 2000. Navy in 2004 at the rank of commander after 23 years, serving as a naval flight officer flying land- and carrier-based aircraft. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2020–21. King Visiting Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Kuehn serves as a professor of military history at the U.S.

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