About
AT A GLANCE:
Professor (recently retired), Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Airpower
• World War II
• Contemporary Conflict
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Conrad Crane recently retired from the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army
War College, after 24 years, including a stint as Director of the US Army Military
History Institute and teaching student seminars. Before that he served 26 years of
active duty in the Army, including 12 years teaching history at the US Military Academy
at West Point, eventually leading the Military History division. He has written extensively
on airpower and landpower subjects, including books and monographs on the American
Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and more contemporary conflicts
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
PUBLICATIONS:
Too Fragile to Fight: Could the U.S. Military Withstand a War of Attrition? War on the Rocks, May 9, 2022
Korean War Economic Mobilization is More Relevant to the Current Pandemic than World War II, War on the Rocks, May 6, 2020
Lessons from the First Time Russia Accused the United States of Biowarfare, War on the Rocks, March 23, 2022
American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, , Civilians and Oil, University Press of Kansas, April 5, 2016
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953, University Press of Kansas, October 2, 2020
CONNECT / FOLLOW:
LinkedIn: @conrad-crane