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Norman Friedman (born 1946) is an American author, analyst, strategist, and historian. ^[1] He has written over 30 books and numerous articles on naval and other military matters, ^[1] has worked for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, and has appeared on television programs including PBS, the Discovery Channel, C-SPAN, and National Geographic.^{[ citation needed]}

Background

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Friedman holds a bachelor's and a doctorate from Columbia University in theoretical physics, completing his dissertation Additional Scattering of Bloch Electrons by Simultaneous Imputity and Lattice Interaction in 1974. ^{[2] [3]} From 1973 to 1984, he was at the Hudson Institute, becoming Deputy Director for National Security Affairs.^{[ clarification needed]} He then^{[ when?]} worked for the United States Navy as in-house consultant.^{[ clarification needed]} From 2002 to 2004, he served as a futurologist for the United States Marine Corps. ^[4] He has held the position of Visiting Professor of Operations Research, University College, University of London. ^[5]

Awards and honors

• Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War won the 2001 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature for the best military history book of 2000 from the British Royal United Services Institute. ^[6]
• Seapower As Strategy: Navies and National Interests won the 2002 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature ^{[7] [8]}

Selected bibliography

• —; Baker, A. D. III; Raven, Alan (1984). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History (First ed.). Naval Institute Press. ISBN  978-1682477595. LCCN  84014767. OCLC  12502364. OL  2852386M. Retrieved 17 August 2022 – via the Internet Archive.
• — (1 September 1991). "The Future Shape of the U. S. Navy". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 517 (1). American Academy of Political and Social Science: 106–119. doi: 10.1177/0002716291517001008. eISSN  1552-3349. ISSN  0002-7162. JSTOR  1047189. OCLC  1479265. S2CID  145473559.
• — (15 May 2006). The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems (5th ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN  978-1557502629. LCCN  2005031194. OCLC  1131518158. OL  3415017M – via Google Books.
• U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History, ISBN  978-1-55750-250-6
• U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History, ISBN  0-87021-739-9
• U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History, ISBN  978-0-87021-715-9
• U.S. Small Combatants, Including PT Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: An Illustrated Design History, ISBN  978-0-87021-713-5
• U.S. Naval Weapons, ISBN  978-0-85177-240-0
• U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine and Torpedo Used by the U.S. Navy from 1883 to the Present Day, ISBN  978-0-87021-735-7
• Naval Radar, ISBN  978-0-87021-967-2
• American and British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919–1941, ISBN  978-1-59114-380-2
• Battleship Design and Development 1905–1945, ISBN  978-0-83170-700-2
• Modern Warship: Design and Development, ISBN  978-0-83176-082-3
• Submarine Design and Development, ISBN  978-0-87021-954-2
• Seapower as Strategy: Navies and National Interests, ISBN  978-1-55750-291-9
• The US Maritime Strategy, ISBN  978-0-71060-500-9
• Postwar Naval Revolution, ISBN  978-0-85177-414-5
• Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, ISBN  978-1-59114-287-4
• Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait, ISBN  978-1-55750-254-4
• Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War, ISBN  978-1-59114-290-4
• Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era, ISBN  978-1-59114-555-4
• Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations, ISBN  978-1-84832-100-7
• Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars, ISBN  978-1-59114-286-7
• British Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of the Ships and Their Aircraft, ISBN  978-0-87021-054-9
• The British Battleship: 1906–1946, ISBN  978-1-84832-225-7
• British Cruisers of the Victorian Era, ISBN  978-1-84832-099-4
• British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After, ISBN  978-1-84832-078-9
• British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War, ISBN  978-1-84832-049-9
• British Destroyers and Frigates: The Second World War and After, ISBN  978-1-84832-015-4
• Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology, ISBN  978-1-84832-189-2

See also

• Naval History (magazine)

References

External links

• US Naval Institute Listing
• Norman Friedman at IMDb
• Appearances on C-SPAN