Jon Scott Logel, Ph.D.
Professor Wargaming Department
Biography
Dr. Logel is a professor in War Gaming Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the United States Naval War College. He specializes in American history and the influence of military education and professionalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since joining the War Gaming faculty in 2011, he has focused his research on the use of historical methods in game analysis for gaining insights into maritime operational issues. Specifically, he has collaborated in qualitative research and analytical projects that have informed the Navy’s development of future naval warfighting concepts, and the drafting of operational plans for emerging threats.
Contact Information
Areas of Expertise
- GWOT
- Korean War
- Maritime History
- Maritime Strategy
- Military Planning
- National Security
- Wargaming
- WWI
- WWII
Professional Highlights
Professor, War Gaming Department, U.S. Naval War College
Associate Professor, War Gaming Department, U.S. Naval War College
Assistant Professor, War Gaming Department, U.S. Naval War College
Military Professor of Strategy and Policy, Strategy and Policy Department, U.S. Naval War College
Deputy Plans and Operations Officer, Multi National Division- North, Tikrit, Iraq
Chief, Future Operations, Multi National Division-North, Tikrit, Iraq
Executive Officer, 209th Aviation Support Battalion, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Brigade Logistics Officer, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, Bagram, Afghanistan
Deputy Commander, 164th Air Traffic Services Group, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
Education
Ph. D., Syracuse University, 2011, History
M. Phil., Syracuse University, 2003, History
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2003, Joint Professional Military Education, MEL Level 1 certified
M.A., Syracuse University, 2000, History
B.A., Wake Forest University, 1990, Political Science, Cum Laude
Research Contributions and Publications
Designing Gotham: West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
2016
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press
Biographies of Ambrose Burnside, George Goethals, Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan and Alden Partridge in West Point Leadership: Profiles of Courage
2013
Dan E. Rice and John A. Vigna
Portsmouth, N.H.: Hawthorn Publications
“Wargaming C2 at Sea,” Professional Note, pp. 82-83
Proceedings Magazine, 140:10, (October, 2014)
“Egbert L. Viele and the Creation of Central Park,” de Halve Maen, pp. 63-68
The Journal of the Holland Society of New York, 75:4, (Winter, 2002)
Book review of Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Edward P. Kohn
Presidential Studies Quarterly (Winter, 2016)
Book review of A History of the Royal Navy: Empire and Imperialism
Daniel Owen Spence
The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord No. 4, 480 (October, 2016)
Book review of Playing War: Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for World War II
Forthcoming
John M. Lillard
Naval War College Review 69:3 (Summer, 2016)
Book review of Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the Navy from Mobile Bay to Okinawa
Timothy S. Wolters
The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord No. 4 (October, 2015), 462-64
Book review of The Business of the Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900-1914
Drew Keeling
The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord No. 1 (January, 2015), 90-91
Book review of Anti-Access Warfare: Countering A2/AD Strategies
Sam J. Tangredi
The Northern Mariner/ le marin du nord No. 1 (January, 2014), 99-100
Book review of Turning the Tide: The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway
G.H. Bennett, J.E. Harrold, R. Porter, and M.J. Pearce series editors
Naval War College Review 66:4, (Winter, 2014), 154-155
Book review of The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Naval War College Review 66:3, (Autumn, 2013), 140-141
“The Complexities of Ending War,” review of Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars
Editor: COL Matthew Moten
Army Magazine, pp.78-80, (April, 2012)
Book review of The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
David Cloud and Greg Jaffe
Naval War College Review 63:3, (Summer, 2010), 159
“A War Not Yet Finished,” review of The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq
2006-2008
Thomas E. Ricks
Naval War College Review 62:3, (Summer, 2009), 151
“A Parable with Valuable COIN Lessons,” review of The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa with E.D. Swinton’s The Defence of Duffer’s Drift
2006-2008
Michael L. Burgoyne and Albert J. Marckwardt
Army Magazine, (July, 2009), 81
Awards and Decorations
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service
2020
Other Honors
Selected to represent the U.S. Naval War College in Leadership Rhode Island for the Kappa II leadership course
2014
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affair at Syracuse University
May, 2012
External Memberships and Associations
Organization of American Historians
Society for Military History
United States Naval War College Foundation-Life Member
Naval Order of the United States
Association of the United States Army
Army Aviation Association of America
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