Senior Historian and Acting Editor in Chief, USAWC Press
Senior Historian at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and Acting Editor in Chief for the USAWC Press
Crane is the Senior Historian at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and Acting Editor in Chief for the USAWC Press. He was the chief of analysis and research for the US Army Heritage and Education Center at Carlisle Barracks. He arrived at the Army War College in 2000 after a 26-year career in the Army. He has served in the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and as the director of the Military History Institute. He holds a bachelor of science from the US Military Academy and a master of arts and PhD from Stanford University. He has authored or edited books and monographs on the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, and has written and lectured widely on airpower and landpower issues.
Before leaving SSI, he coauthored a prewar study on reconstructing Iraq that influenced Army planners and has attracted much attention from the media. He was the lead author for the groundbreaking Army-USMC counterinsurgency manual which was released in December 2006. In November 2008, he was named the international Archivist of the Year by the Scone Foundation. He published two books in 2016, one for Naval Institute Press about the creation and application of American counterinsurgency doctrine, entitled Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War, and another for University Press of Kansas titled American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil. Also in 2016 he was awarded the Society for Military History Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime contributions to the field of military history.
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About Conrad C. Crane
Senior Historian at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and Acting Editor in Chief for the USAWC Press
Crane is the Senior Historian at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and Acting Editor in Chief for the USAWC Press. He was the chief of analysis and research for the US Army Heritage and Education Center at Carlisle Barracks. He arrived at the Army War College in 2000 after a 26-year career in the Army. He has served in the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and as the director of the Military History Institute. He holds a bachelor of science from the US Military Academy and a master of arts and PhD from Stanford University. He has authored or edited books and monographs on the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, and has written and lectured widely on airpower and landpower issues.
Before leaving SSI, he coauthored a prewar study on reconstructing Iraq that influenced Army planners and has attracted much attention from the media. He was the lead author for the groundbreaking Army-USMC counterinsurgency manual which was released in December 2006. In November 2008, he was named the international Archivist of the Year by the Scone Foundation. He published two books in 2016, one for Naval Institute Press about the creation and application of American counterinsurgency doctrine, entitled Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War, and another for University Press of Kansas titled American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil. Also in 2016 he was awarded the Society for Military History Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime contributions to the field of military history.