After a long career in the Oil & Gas Industry, he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. He is the author of Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War and The Vietnam War in Popular Culture: The influence of America’s Most Controversial War on Everyday Life. As a Fulbright Scholar, he taught the History of U.S. Foreign Policy in Vietnam and teaches Study Abroad in Southeast Asia most summers. He is one of 8 American scholars writing the history of America's wars for the new Education Center at "The Wall" in Washington D.C. and in 2015 was recognized for his teaching of military history by being inducted into the Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame at the Infantry Museum in Fort Benning, Georgia.