Book Talk - Combat Historian: Collecting and Writing Army Special-Operations History

Join retired U.S. Army Col. Richard W. Stewart, Ph.D. for a look at the history of Army special operations and their missions from Desert Storm (1991) to the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan (2002), and a first-person account of experiencing conflict through the lens of a combat historian.

Richard W. Stewart retired as Chief Historian of the US Army in October 2015, after 40 years of combined service both as a civilian, in the Army Reserve, and on active duty. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1986. His historical works include “War in the Persian Gulf: Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, August 1990–March 1991;” “The United States Army in Somalia, 1992–1994;” and “The U.S. Army in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom, October 2001 to March 2002.”