Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Navy, is a naval aviator currently serving in the Pentagon. He is a research student in War Studies with King’s College, London, and the editor of the recent Naval Institute Press book 21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era.
Charles E. Brodine Jr. is a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command and associate editor of the Command’s series The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. He is also a coauthor of Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to the USS Constitution (Naval Historial Center, 2007) and Against All Odds: U.S. Sailors in the War of 1812 (Naval Historical Center, 2004).
Lieutenant Colonel Tom C. McKenney, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who served as an infantry officer and parachutist in Korea and Vietnam. An advocate for American prisoners of war and veterans’ issues, Colonel McKenney has had numerous articles and books published, including Jack Hinson’s One-Man War (Pelican Publishing, 2011).
Vincent P. O’Hara is a naval historian and the author or editor of five books published by the Naval Institute Press: The German Fleet at War (2004), The U.S. Navy Against the Axis (2007), The Struggle for the Middle Sea (2009), On Seas Contested (2010), and To Crown the Waves (2013). His work has also appeared in many periodicals and annuals. O’Hara holds a history degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
David Curtis Skaggs is professor emeritus of history at Bowling Green State University. He is the editor of ten books and the author of four others, including Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (2006) and Thomas Macdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy (2003), both published by the Naval Institute Press.
Thomas Wildenberg is an independent historian/scholar specializing in the development of naval aviation and logistics at sea. He has written extensively about the U.S. Navy during the interwar period. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Military History, American Neptune, and Proceedings. He is also the author of three books on U.S. naval history, including All the Factors of Victory: Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Air Power (Brassey’s, 2003).