Donald Stoker (historian)

Donald J. Stoker is an American military historian.

Education
He earned his Bachelor's Degree in 1989 and his Master's of Arts in 1990 from Valdosta State University.

Career
Donald Stoker is currently Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Personal Life
He lives with his wife and daughter in Salinas, California.

Publications

 * Britain, France, and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919-1939: Grand Strategy and Failure. London: Frank Cass, 2003. ISBN 0714653195
 * Girding for Battle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815 - 1940. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0275973395
 * Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815-2007. London: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 9780415770156
 * With Harold D. Blanton, and Frederick C. Schneid. Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs? London: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 9780415349994
 * The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780195373059
 * With Kenneth J. Hagan, and Michael T. McMaster. Strategy in the American War of Independence: A Global Approach. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 9780415367349
 * Clausewitz: His Life and Work. New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780199357949

Awards
The Grand Design was recognized with Fletcher Pratt award for best non-fiction Civil War book of 2010 by the Civil War Round Table of New York and was a Main Selection of the History Book Club.

He was named as an Outstanding Alumnus of Valdosta State University by the Department of History in 2014.