CONTRIBUTOR:

Stephen A. Bourque

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor of History

DEPARTMENT:

School of Advanced Military Studies

INSTITUTION:

United States Army Command and General Staff College

BIOGRAPHY:

Stephen A. Bourque (Ph.D. Georgia State University) is professor of history at the School of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he teaches subjects related to the theory, history, and practice of the operational art of war. He retired in 1992 after twenty years enlisted and commissioned service, earning a bronze star for his service on Operation DESERT STORM. He is the author of several books and numerous articles including Jayhawk! The VII Corps in the 1991 Persian Gulf War (2002), The Road to Safwan (2007), and Soldiers' Lives: The Post Cold War Era (2008). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies (University of Calgary), and an active member of the Society of Military History. Currently, he is working on a manuscript on the Allied bombing of France during the Normandy Campaign.