Douglas Porch

Douglas Porch is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His previous books include Defeat and Division, France at War, 1939–1942 (2022), Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (2013), The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II (published in the UK as Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble, 2004), and The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (1995).