Douglas Carl Peifer
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Douglas C. Peifer is a professor in the strategy department at the United States Air War College. He served as an junior officer aboard the Sixth Fleet flagship USS Belknap CG-26 in the 1980s, and then decided to take up the study of history and international affairs full time. He completed his masters and Ph.D. in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, focusing on modern diplomatic and military history with a special interest in the nexus between strategy, history, international politics, and culture. His most recent book is Hitler’s Deserters. Breaking Ranks with the Wehmacht (Oxford, 2025), with previous books examining naval incidents and the decision for war - Choosing War (Oxford, 2016), German naval history - The Three German Navies: Dissolution, Transition, and New Beginnings (translated and published in Germany by Winkler Verlag as Drei Deutsche Marinen. Auflösung, Übergänge Und Neuanfänge), and genocide and intervention - Stopping Mass Killings in Africa. Genocide, Airpower, and Intervention, along with articles in The Journal of Military History, Strategic Studies Quarterly, War in History, War and Society, Contemporary European History, European Security, and The German Studies Review. His broader interests include the study of consent and coercion, mutiny and military disintegration; the interaction between history, culture, and foreign policy; European security issues past and present; and the challenges posed by genocide and mass killings. An avid traveler, Peifer is married to Elizabeth Bostick Peifer and is the father of four sons.
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