David F. Winkler is a retired Navy commander having received his commission through Penn State NROTC. Having earned his Ph.D. at American University, he served as staff historian at the Naval Historical Foundation for 25 years, has taught at the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval War College, and held the Charles Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian. He has published five books with the Naval Institute Press and writes a monthly historical perspective column for Sea Power Magazine. An Adjunct Professor with the Naval War College teaching Strategy and War in Washington, DC, he is also the Historian General of the Naval Order of the United States. He serves as a Trustee with the National Maritime Historical Society (NMHS) and is on the boards of the UK-based Naval Dockyard Society and the Western Naval History Association. He publishes a weekly naval history e-letter Tuesday Tidings with NMHS.