Editorial Advisory Panel

Jonathan Klug

Dr. Jonathan Klug is a retired United States Army Colonel working at the U.S. Army War College. He was an Armor officer and Army Strategist, and his overseas service included Haiti, Bosnia, Korea, Egypt, Iraq, Germany, and Afghanistan. Jon spent six years of his thirty-year career at the U.S. Army War College, serving as Associate Dean for his last year of active duty. He was an award-winning faculty member teaching military strategy and operational history, and he served as the William F. Halsey Chair of Naval Studies. Jon holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of New Brunswick in Canada. His dissertation examined the role of logistics in the U.S. Navy’s transition to a blue-water navy, which is under contract with the University of Alabama Press’ Maritime Currents series. Jon has written U.S. Army, U.S. Joint, and NATO Joint doctrine on counterinsurgency and security force assistance. Along with writing manuals, articles, monographs, and book chapters, Jon co-edited three volumes: To Boldy Go on science fiction and strategy; Power Up on superheroes and strategy; and Professionals Talk Logistics on logistics and strategy. Jon holds degrees from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies, Louisiana State University, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. An award-winning military history instructor, he taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy. Dr. Klug is an editor for the Army War College’s online journal War Room, a reviewer for the Army War College quarterly journal Parameters, and a member of the editorial advisory panel of Military Strategy Magazine.

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Publications

BOOKS

• Building a Blue-water Navy: U.S. Naval Logistics, 1775-1941. Advanced contract with University of Alabama Press’s Maritime Currents

 

EDITED VOLUMES

• Professionals Talk Logistics: The Relationship of Military Strategy and Logistics Past, Present, And Future. Howgate, under contract, forthcoming in January 2025. Coeditor and chapter author.
• Power Up: Leadership, Character, and Conflict Beyond the Multiverse. Casemate, 2023. Coeditor and chapter author.
• To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21^st Century and Beyond. Casemate, 2021. Coeditor and chapter author. Hardback first edition and paperback second edition.
• Mission Command for the 21^st Century. Combat Studies Institute, 2016. Foreword by Retired GEN Robert Brown. Coeditor and chapter author.

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

• “Soviet Theory Forgotten: Russian Military Strategy in the War in Ukraine.” Military Strategy Magazine special edition. May 2024. Peer Reviewed.
• “Greedy for Effect: The Historiography of U.S. Naval Logistics and the Pacific War.” The International Journal of Military History and Historiography. Advanced article published online, December 2023. Peer reviewed.
• “Establishing the Realm of the Possible: Logistics and Military Strategy.” Military Strategy Magazine. September 2023. Peer reviewed.
• “The Joint Force and Lessons from 1971.” Parameters. Spring 2021. Peer reviewed.
• “Strategy at Sea.” In On Strategy: A Primer. June 2020.
• “Integrated Campaigning in the Pacific, 1918-1948.” Parameters. Summer 2020. Coauthored. Peer reviewed.
• “Strategy While Shaving with a Blowtorch.” The War Room. January 2020.
• “A House to be Feared.” In Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Future Conflict. August 2019.
• The Game of Risk. Strategy Bridge. March 22, 2016. Coauthored.
• The Ones to Watch: A Net Assessment of the Global Future. Strategy Bridge, web journal, February 9, 2016. Coauthored.
• “Out of Balance: Rebalancing Access and Overcoming Denial.” The Journal of Military Operations. Winter 2014. Coauthored.
• “Behind the Mosaic: Insurgent Centers of Gravity and Counterinsurgency,” Addressing the Fog of COG: Perspectives on the Center of Gravity in US Military Doctrine. Combat Studies Institute, 2012.
• “Developing Foreign Security Forces in the Era of Persistent Conflict.” Army Magazine, 2010. Coauthored.
• Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, U.S.S.R. Army, and U.S.S.R. Navy. The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO, 2007. Six entries.
• German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact: World War II, Lake Champlain: War of 1812, and Pacific Theater Overview: World War II. S. at War, 2005. Entries in ABC-CLIO’s online database: www.usatwar.abc-clio.com.
• “Armor’s Role in Future U.S. MOUT Doctrine.” Armor Magazine, May-June 2000.

 

MILITARY DOCTRINE AND PAPERS

• The First Grid: Historical Context for Transformational Change, Indo-Pacific Working Paper 1. August 2020. Strategic Studies Institute. Coauthored.
• Allied Joint Publication 3.4.4., Counterinsurgency, 2011. Writing team secretary, chapter author, and as a supporting author for all chapters.
• NATO Training Mission—Afghanistan Year in Review. 2010. Lead author.
• Army Field Manual 3-07.1, Security Force Assistance, 2009. Lead author.
• American, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Armies’ Program, ABCA REPORT Number 086: SECURITY SECTOR REFORM – THE MILITARY CONTEXT, 2009. Project Team Leader.
• Joint Publication 3-24, Counterinsurgency Operations, 2009. Lead author.
• Army Field Manual 3-24/Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-33.5, 2006. Assisted final editing and acted as manual’s doctrinal custodian from publishing until October 2009.