nationality language birth_date article_title name occupation
united states english 1953 christopher bassford
 christopher bassford military historian professor of strategy
christopher bassford

christopher bassford -lrb- born 1953 -rrb- is an american military historian .
bassford graduated from the college of william and mary with a degree in history and honors for his dissertation on tactical nuclear weapons and completed his ma in american diplomatic history at ohio university .
subsequent to receiving his ma , he served five years on active duty as a u.s. army field artillery officer , with tours in korea and germany .
he completed a ph.d. in modern european history at purdue university and became director of studies in the theory and nature of war at the u.s. marine corps -lrb- usmc -rrb- command and staff college , then associate professor of national policy issues at the u.s. army war college .
he was professor of strategy at the national war college -lrb- nwc -rrb- , in washington , d.c. , from 1999 until 2012 , when he joined the faculty of the college of international security affairs -lrb- cisa -rrb- as part of the jsoma program supporting u.s. army special operations command -lrb- arsoc -rrb- .
