David R. Dorondo is an associate professor of European military and political history at Western Carolina University. He is a member of the Society for Military History as well as U.S. Strategic Command’s Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance. Dorondo received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1988. He earned a Master of Arts degree in German and European diplomatic history from the University of South Carolina in 1984 and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in history from Armstrong State College in 1980. He has published numerous papers, articles, reviews, encyclopedia entries and op-eds on German and modern European military history.