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David Rosenberg is an historian who studies the development of military strategy and national security affairs in the twentieth century.
Through persistent efforts to declassify key, government documents, Rosenberg has explored the origins and evolution of nuclear strategy in a series of major historical essays and short monographs. These have exposed the substantial disparity between government policy pronouncements and the actual plans and capabilities for nuclear war. His work on a biography, Arleigh Burke and the United States Navy, and on a history of concepts, plans and policies relating to a Third World War between the superpowers, 1945-1990, has been interrupted by continuing delays in declassification of pertinent documents.
Biography
Rosenberg is a professorial lecturer in military history at Temple University and was named the first Admiral Harry W. Hill Chair of Maritime Strategy at the National War College in Washington, D.C. (1996-1998). A Commander (Special Duty, Intelligence) in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he served on active duty with the Joint Chiefs of Staff throughout the Persian GulfWar. Since 1996, he has served as the assistant to the vice-chief of naval operations at the U.S. Naval War College.
Rosenberg received a B.A. (1970) from the American University, and an M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1983) from the University of Chicago.
Last updated January 1, 2005.
Published on August 1, 1988
