Personal Statement:
My research focuses on the development of the American national security establishment in the 20th century. My personal research projects have examined such post-World War I strategic dilemmas as national security strategy and nuclear war planning; tactical and operational innovation in naval warfare; the challenges of long range naval force structure planning; the integration of intelligence and technology into naval and national strategy; and the post-1945 problem of global thermonuclear war between East and West. Current projects include the book Arleigh Burke: A Sailor's Life and Legacy, written with full access to and a quarter century of association with the late Admiral and Mrs. Arleigh Burke and their personal and official papers, and the forthcoming official study prepared with Lt. Cmdr. Christopher A. Ford or U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence from World War II through the end of the Cold War. Additional projects include a history of plans and concepts for World War III between the Cold War superpowers entitled Strategy Hits a Dead End: The American Way of Nuclear War, 1945-1975 and a history of American naval intelligence, technology, and strategy since 1945. I have found it both personally rewarding and professionally valuable to combine academic teaching and researching with government service. As a result, I have served since 1998 as a Navy Department civilian and Senior Strategic Researvher at the U.S. Naval War College, working as a special assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, professor of Maritime Strategy at the National War College, and in 2003-2004 as Director of Task Force History, collecting U.S. Navy records and oral history for the Global War on Terror and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. In addition, I am a Captain (Special Duty, Intelligence), in the Selected Reserve of the U.S. Naval Reserve, where I command the largest Naval Reserve intelligence unit, and also directed the operational intelligence lessons-learned project for the Director of Naval Intelligence that has produced the forthcoming book on that subject. My prior service as a senior fellow at the Strategic Concepts Development Center, National Defense University (1983-1985), professor of strategy and operations at the Naval War College (1985-1990) and professor of maritime strategy at the National War College (1996-2003), has given me insights into both policy-making and pedagogy that I have employed teaching history at Temple University. I primarily offer reading courses designed to prepare graduate students for Ph>D. or M.A. fields in history, On occasion I have had the opportunity to also teach beginning and advanced undergraduate courses that employ historical role-playing games, built on fifteen years experience in military war gaming, to challenge students' understanding of the strategic choices faced by historical figures in war, politics and diplomacy from the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War. The reading courses I offer are built in part on the Naval and National War Colleges' curricula in policy and strategy where students may contemplate the classic studies in military thought and consider the latest social science scholarship in security studies.

Representative Publications:

"Arleigh Burke: The Last CNO," in James C. Bradford, ed., Quarterdeck and Bridge: Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders (1996).

"American Naval Strategy in the Era of the Third World War: An Inquiry into the Structure and Process of General War at Sea, 1945-1990," in Nicholas A.M. Rodger, ed., Naval Power in the Twentieth Century (1996).

"The History of World War Three: A Conceptual Framework," in Robert David Johnson, ed., On Cultural Ground: Essays in International History in Honor of Akira Iriye (1994).

"Nuclear War Planning," in Michael Howard, George Andreopoulos, and Mark Russell Shulman, eds., The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994).

"Process: The Realities of Formulating Modern Naval Strategy," in James Goldrick and John B. Hattendorf, eds., Mahan is Not Enough: The Proceedings of the Corbett-Richmond Conference, U.S. Naval War College (1993).

"Arleigh Albert Burke," in Stephen Howarth, ed., Men of War: Great Naval Captains of World War II (1993).

Co-editor (with Steven Ross), U.S. Plans for War with the Soviet Union, 1945-1990, 15 volumes, (1990).

"'It Is Hardly Possible to Imagine Anything Worse': Soviet Thoughts on the Maritime Strategy," Naval War College Review (1988)

"Reality and Responsibility: Power and Process in the Making of American Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1968", Journal of Strategic Studies (1986).

"The Origins of Overkill: Nuclear Weapons and American Strategy, 1945-1960," International Security (1983).

"American Atomic Strategy and the Hydrogen Bomb Decision," Journal of American History (1979).

Notes:
Professor Rosenberg was awarded the 1980 Binkley-Stephanson Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best article published in the Journal of American History in 1979, and the 1980 Bernath Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has received scholar grants for research from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute (1974, 1975, 1983), the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation (1983, 1992), the Ford Foundation (1985, 1986), and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant for Individual Research and Writing in International Peace and Security (1987-1988). In 1988, he became the first military historian to be awarded a five year John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He received the Department of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award from the Chief of Naval Operations for his civilian consulting work for the Navy on current policy and strategy in 1995. That same year, he was appointed to and was subsequently elected Chair of the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History to which he has been twice reappointed. In 1996, he was appointed the first incumbent of the Admiral Harry W. Hill Chair of Maritime Strategy at the National War College where he served through 2003. He was awarded the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal in 2000 by the Chief of Naval Operations in recognition for his comtributions to "a renaissance in strategic thinking" on the Chief of Naval Operations staff.

Professor David Rosenberg, Admiral and Mrs. Arleigh Burke