Cutler

Thomas J. Cutler is a former petty officer second class and retired lieutenant commander who has been serving the U.S. Navy in various capacities for more than fifty years, including a combat tour in Vietnam and service in aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and patrol craft. The author of many articles and books, he is the Gordon England Chair of Professional Naval Literature at the U.S. Naval Institute and Distinguished Fleet Professor of Strategy and Policy with the Naval War College. He has received the William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education as military teacher of the year at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Naval Literature, the U.S. Maritime Literature Award, the Naval Institute Press Author of the Year Award, and the Commodore Dudley Knox Lifetime Achievement Award in Naval History.

Articles by Thomas Cutler

USS Little Rock CG-4 in Harbor

The U.S. Navy in the Yom Kippur War

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
October 2023
An officer’s firsthand account of the Mideast conflict that led to “the largest naval confrontation between the U.S. Navy and the Soviet Navy in the entire Cold War.”
The U.S. Naval Academy’s Physics & Chemistry building: The first headquarters of the U.S. Naval Institute.

Fifteen Founders

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
October 2023
It was June Week 1879 at the U.S. Naval Academy, a time that normally would be marked by much happiness and loud celebration, but the only sounds were the somber ...
USS Constitution

‘Old Ironsides’

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 2023
From her glory days in the Age of Fighting Sail to the present day, the USS Constitution has been an enduring icon of American sea power.
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A Legacy of Naval Book Publishing

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 2023
Since 1898, the U.S. Naval Institute’s book division has been producing works of lasting importance both to the Navy and to all who love naval history.

Books by Thomas Cutler