- Ph.D. 2004, The Ohio State University, Modern Military History, Science and Technology
- M.A. 1999, University of Calgary, Modern Military History
- B.A. 1991, University of Calgary, Sociology
Currently Professor and Chair, Department of Airpower, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB
Publications
- Airpower over Gallipoli, 1915-1916, (Naval Institute Press, 2020)
- War and Warfare Since 1945, (Routledge, 2017)
- The Luftwaffe 1933-1945, (Amber Books, UK, 2010)
- The Military-Industrial Complex and American Society, (ABC-Clio, 2010)
- The Jet Race and the Second World War, (Praeger Securities International, 2007; paperback from the Naval Institute Press, 2010)
- America at War with Dr. Paul Springer, (Naval Institute Press, forthcoming)
Television
What on Earth?, Science Channel, ongoing
Nazi Megastructures, NatGeo, ongoing
Conspiracies Decoded, Science Channel, ongoing
Articles, Chapters, and Book Reviews (selected)
- The Green New Deal for Space, Space Review, Nov 2, 2020: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4058/1
- Cyber:War? in Technology, Violence, and War, Ehlers, Douglas, and Curzon (eds.), Brill, 2019“The Inevitability of the Weaponization of Space: Technological Constructivism Versus Determinism” in Astropolitics (Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 39-48)
- “By Land and Sea: Non-Carrier Naval Aviation” in Douglas V. Smith, One Hundred Years of U.S. Navy Air Power, (Naval Institute Press, 2010)
- Contributor to the World History Encyclopedia, (ABC-Clio, 2007), including over 10,000 words on Military Technology in Modern History