title: Donald Stoker (historian)
text: # Donald Stoker (historian)
  
  Donald J. Stoker is an American military historian.
  
  ## Education
  
  He earned his bachelor's degree in 1989, his Master's of Arts in 1990 from Valdosta State University and his PhD in Military and Diplomatic History from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL in 1997.
  
  ## Career
  
  Donald Stoker was a Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California for 18 years. He currently is a Visiting Fellow and Fulbright Visiting Professor of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Britain, France, and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919-1939: Grand Strategy and Failure. London: Frank Cass, 2003. ISBN 0714653195 OCLC 51607351
  * Girding for Battle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815 - 1940. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0275973395 OCLC 845526470
  * Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815-2007. London: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 9780415770156 OCLC 148729762
  * With Harold D. Blanton, and Frederick C. Schneid. Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs? London: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 9780415349994 OCLC 226984653
  * The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780195373059 OCLC 463454485
  * With Kenneth J. Hagan, and Michael T. McMaster. Strategy in the American War of Independence: A Global Approach. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 9780415367349 OCLC 373060002
  * Clausewitz: His Life and Work. New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780199357949 OCLC 876005873
  * Air Force Advising and Assistance: Developing Airpower in Client States. Helion and Company, 2018. ISBN 1912390604
  * Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and American Strategy Since Korea. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  
  ## Awards
  
  The Grand Design was recognized with Fletcher Pratt award for best non-fiction Civil War book of 2010 by the Civil War Round Table of New York and was a Main Selection of the History Book Club.
  
  He was named as an Outstanding Alumnus of Valdosta State University by the Department of History in 2014.
  
  