Robert A. Doughty | |
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Born | Robert Allan Doughty November 4, 1943 Tullos, Louisiana, U.S. |
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Discipline | Military History |
Institutions | United States Military Academy |
Robert Allan Doughty (born November 4,1943) is an American military historian and retired United States Army officer.
Doughty was born in Tullos,Louisiana,on November 4,1943,to parents John and Georgia Doughty. [1] [2]
He attended the United States Military Academy,graduating in 1965. Doughty subsequently completed a tour of duty in Germany before deploying to Vietnam in an advisory role in 1968. Upon his return to the United States,Doughty pursued graduate study,earning a master's degree from the University of California,Los Angeles in 1972,followed by a doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1979. From 1979 to 1981,Doughty served a second stint in Germany. In 1985,he was named head of the history department at West Point,and retired from the position in 2005. [1] [2]
Doughty devoted much of his career to studying French military actions during the world wars. [3] He held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair in Military History at the U.S. Army Military History Institute from 1995 to 1996. [4]
He is the father of the singer-songwriter Mike Doughty. [5]
In 1986,Doughty received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association. [6] The Society for Military History named him the 2006 awardee of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize . [7]