Biography

Stanley D.M. Carpenter, Professor of Strategy, Command Historian and Head, Strategy and Policy Department, College of Distance Education, and Homeland Security/Homeland Defense Area of Study Coordinator, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, holds a History Honors BA – University of North Carolina, an M.Litt. in British History – University of St Andrews (Scotland), and a Ph.D. in British History – Florida State University. He is a retired U.S. Navy Captain with four command tours.

Recent publications include Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651: ‘The Genius of this Age;’ The English Civil War (Editor, The International Library of Essays on Military History); Resurrection of Antimony (World War II historical fiction); Genesis of ANTIMONY (World War I historical fiction); Southern Gambit: Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown (forthcoming February 2019, University of Oklahoma Press); “British Strategic Failure in the Southern Campaign, 1778-81” (Naval War College publication);“Bold but Prudent: Thomas Hinman Moorer” in Nineteen Gun Salute: Case Studies of Strategic and Operational Naval Leadership in the 20th Century; “The Two Ocean Navy Act of 1940: The Impact on American Preparedness for World War II” in One Hundred Years of U.S. Navy Air Power; and Charles Cornwallis and Oliver Cromwell for Oxford University Press, Oxford Bibliographies Online since 2011.

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