Professor John T. Kuehn, Ph.D., serves as the Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King 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, serving 23 years as a naval flight officer and taught military history at the Army Command and General Staff college until his current position. He has authored “Agents of Innovation” (2008) and five other books on military history and was awarded a Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History in 2011. His latest book from ABC-CLIO is “The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History,” co-authored with David Holden.