Brian McAllister Linn is an American military historian, who specializes in the 20th century. He serves on the faculty at

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. He was born in the territory of Hawaii and graduated from

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Education

*Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1985 *M.A., The Ohio State University, 1981 *B.A. with High Honors, University of Hawai’i, 1978

Career

Linn has been the recipient of a John Simon

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and an Olin Fellowship. He taught as a visiting professor at the Army War College and a Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Singapore and the University of Birmingham. He is a past president of the

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.https://www.k-state.edu/history/eisenlecture/Eisenhower_lecture_10.pdf

Works

*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016. *Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. *Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The United States: Anticipating and Conducting War, 1939-1942''. Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, 2006. *Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The Impact of the Imperial Wars (1899-1907) on the U.S. Army''. Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, 2005. *Linn, Brian McAllister. ''Eisenhower, the Army, and the American Way of War''. Manhattan, Kansas: Dept. of History, Kansas State University, 2003. *Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The Philippine War, 1899-1902''. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. *Linn, Brian McAllister. ''Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific; 1902-1940''. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1998. *Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American military historians Texas A&M University faculty Ohio State University alumni University of Hawaiʻi alumni Historians from Texas {{US-historian-stub