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"""I am not one to spend much time on the premise that history repeats itself.  I do spend time seeking the insights history provides, especially from those who led in consequential times.  Given the uncertainty of the era we live in now, and its corollary to the Pacific and Europe of 1930’s and 1940’s, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King holds a singular place in global maritime history worthy of greater study.  David Kohnen has provided us that service. King stood among the brightest stars of American sea power after five decades on active service.  King, recognizing as the world changed so must the application, though not the foundational theory, of naval strategy and operations.  This is why David’s book, King's Navy, is so important to us today.  Kohnen draws from previously overlooked original archival sources to offer fresh historical foundations for our current consideration in framing American sea power in the context of the Navy we have in the now term, as well as the we need in the mid and long term."" -- Admiral Scott Swift, USN (Ret.) Former Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, 7th Fleet, CSG-9 ""Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King has finally found the biographer he deserves. David Kohnen’s monumental ""warts-and-all"" study of the controversial wartime leader critically dissects King’s complex personality and skillfully situates him right where he belongs – at the very center of the rise of American sea power during the Twentieth Century. This meticulously researched study is essential reading for anyone interested in the history – and the future – of the United States Navy."" -- Christopher M. Bell, author ""Churchill and Sea Power"" ""David Kohnen’s book on Fleet Admiral Ernest King, the product of decades of research, illuminates not only King himself, but many of the principal characters of the U.S. Navy in both the interwar years and during the Second World War.  Casting his net broadly, Kohnen profiles King’s sometimes controversial role in the Navy and in the Anglo-American relationship as well as the key role King played in the development of Allied strategy during the war.  A dozen appendices offer iconic and previously unpublished archival documents."" -- Craig L. Symonds, author ""Nimitz at War"" ""Naval War College professor David Kohnen portrays the towering, and complex character of Ohio-born Ernest J. King in this new work. Kohnen is especially adept at demolishing myths have lingered too long about King, and presents the man, not the caricature. It is more than biography, it places King within the institutional context of the U.S. Navy during its rise to absolute maritime preeminence in the first half the 20th Century, a rise that King was in many ways instrumental in bringing about."" -- John T. Kuehn, Ph.D.Professor of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College ""After the American warships visited Japan during the antebellum, the strong friendships and fundamental strategic connections between the two seapowers have endured into the twenty-first century. Among many others, we may recall the cordial relationships among such towering historical figures as admirals Funokashi and Sims, Nomura and Pratt, and Kantarō and King. This is why David Kohnen's book, King's Navy, stands out as an important contribution to the historiography of Trans-Pacific relations and the future of seapower in what he calls the ""global maritime arena"" of the twenty-first century."" -- RADM (ret.) YAMAMOTO Katsuya, JMSDF Senior Research Fellow, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation"

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David Kohnen completed doctoral studies with the Laughton Professor of Naval History at the University of London, King’s College. With 30 years both on active and reserve service in the US Navy, Kohnen also completed multiple combat deployments at sea and ashore in the greater Middle East after 9/11. Kohnen lives with his wife, Dr. Sarah M. Goldberger, and their two daughters, Elisabeth and Katherine, in Rhode Island.

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