Robert Allan Doughty (born November 4, 1943) is an American military historian and retired United States Army officer.

Early life

Doughty was born in

Tullos, Louisiana Tullos is a town in LaSalle and Winn parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana, along Castor Creek. The population was 385 at the 2010 census. Geography Tullos is located in northwestern LaSalle Parish at (31.819556, -92.327501) and has an elev ...

, on November 4, 1943, to parents John and Georgia Doughty.

Career

He attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1965. Doughty subsequently completed a tour of duty in Germany before deploying to Vietnam in an advisory role in 1968. Upon his return to the United States, Doughty pursued graduate study, earning a master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, followed by a doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1979. From 1979 to 1981, Doughty served a second stint in Germany. In 1985, he was named head of the history department at West Point, and retired from the position in 2005. Doughty devoted much of his career to studying French military actions during the world wars. He held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair in Military History at the U.S. Army Military History Institute from 1995 to 1996.

Personal life

He is the father of the singer-songwriter Mike Doughty

Awards and recognition

In 1986, Doughty received the

Paul Birdsall Prize The Paul Birdsall Prize is an biennial prize given to a historian by the American Historical Association. Background The prize was established by a donation from Hans W. Gatzke, who remained anonymous until his death. The prize is named for P ...

from the American Historical Association. The Society for Military History named him the 2006 awardee of the .

Selected books

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References

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