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This book is a companion to the author's Digesting History (published by NWCP, sold by GPO, and winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's 2010 John Lyman Book Prize for Primary Source Materials, Reference Works, and Guide Books). It closely analyzes war gaming at the Naval War college in the academic year 1945-46, as both a reflection and source of the U.S. Navy's doctrinal and strategic responses to the experience of World War II--responses that would help the Navy shape its approach to the new conditions from which the Cold War soon emerged, as well as, effectively, lay groundwork for the seminal Maritime Strategy of the 1980s. In the course of analysis the book describes in detail the practice of naval war gaming--of which the College was and remains a world leader--in that era.

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Hal M. Friedman is Professor of Modern History in the History and Political Science Department of the Humanities and Social Science Division at Henry FordCommunity College, Dearborn, Michigan. Educated at Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor of science in political science and history (magna cum laude) in1987, Professor Friedman took his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in the history of international relations at Michigan State University in 1991 and1995, respectively. Additionally, he teaches part-time as an adjunct faculty member of the Command and Staff College Distance Education Program within the U.S.Marine Corps University's College of Continuing Education; a section instructor in Norwich University's online Master of Arts in Military History Program; andan adjunct lecturer of strategy and policy in the U.S. Naval War College's Non-Resident Strategy and Policy Seminar Program. Professor Friedman has formerlytaught for Central Michigan University-Metro Detroit, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan State University, the University of Detroit-Mercy, the University ofMichigan-Dearborn, and Washtenaw Community College.Professor Friedman is the author of Creating an American Lake: United States Imperialism and Strategic Security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001), Governing the American Lake: The US Defense and Administration of the Pacific, 1945-1947 (East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press, 2007), Arguingover the American Lake: Bureaucracy and Rivalry in the U.S. Pacific, 1945-1947 (College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2009), and Digesting History: The U.S.Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945- 1947 (Newport, R.I.: Naval War College Press, 2010). Professor Friedman is alsoediting a collection of essays about the United States military in the Pacific and East Asia in the 1940s entitled Establishing Hegemony: The American Military Presencein the Pacific Basin, 1940-1950. He has additionally published numerous articles in The Hawaiian Journal of History, Intelligence and National Security, ISLA: A Journalof Micronesian Studies, The Journal of Pacific History, Pacific Historical Review, and The History Teacher, H-Net, the International Journal of Naval History, TheJournal of American History, The Journal of Military History, Michigan Historical Review, Michigan War Studies Review, National Identities, Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of World History, the World History Bulletin, and World War II. Professor Friedman was an article abstractor for ABC-CLIO; an article referee for MichiganHistorical Review, The Michigan Academician, and Pacific Historical Review; a monograph referee for Texas A&M University Press; and a textbook reviewer forHoughton Mifflin, Longman Publishers, McGraw-Hill, and Prentice Hall.Professor Friedman has been a conference program committee member for the Organization of American Historians, the Liberal Arts Network for Development, and the Ohio Academy of History; both a consulting historian and summer scholar with the National Endowment for the Humanities' Landmarks of American Historyand Culture Program; and a consulting historian for the Department of Education's Teaching American History Program. He is also a cofounder of the MetroDetroit Historians Collegium, a member of the Michigan War Studies Review Editorial Board, and a member of the Ohio Academy of History's Professional DevelopmentCommittee. Professor Friedman has also been honored a number of times, including with the Major General Thomas S. Jones, USMC, Distance Learning Instructor of theYear Award, Fort Worth Region, Command and Staff College Distance Education Program, Marine Corps College of Continuing Education; with an EdwardS. Miller Fellowship in Naval History for the Naval War College's Naval Historical Collection; with an Alumni Award for Outstanding Academic and Professional Accomplishmentsfrom Eastern Michigan University's Department of History and Philosophy; and as an honorary member in Phi Theta Kappa, the Two-Year CollegeInternational Honor Society.Heavily involved with Henry Ford Community College's shared-governance system, Professor Friedman has served on a variety of committees for HFCC andhis union local, the last as the secretary of the Henry Ford Community College Federation of Teachers, American Federation of Teachers Local 1650.Professor Friedman served as a personnelman (PN) in the U.S. Naval Reserve, primarily as a pay and personnel clerk in several Naval Reserve Intelligence Commandunits. His service awards include the Naval Reserve Meritorious Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award.He was also chosen as the Fleet Intelligence Rapid Support Team 1773 Junior Sailor of the Year for 1991.

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