Who I am

 

I am an associate professor of political science.  Much of my academic interest is in the field of Public Administration, which is the study of public organizations.  My personal interest is the Second World War, and the free time I have is devoted to it in a variety of ways: reading, war gaming, scale modeling, and writing.

 

Much of what you will (eventually) find on this site is the result of overlapping my professional and personal interests.  I have started a large project that examines the performance of various armies in World War II.  Since armies are public organizations, the field of Public Administration can explain institutional performance and should help us understand why some armies were better than others.  The use of a single theoretical model to analyze the various armies will greatly aid in comparing their performance.  As of now, much of the literature on the issue has each army succeeding or failing in their own unique way.  I intend to question this assertion by using a common metric to compare institutional performance.  This will also help explain the transformation (or lack thereof) of the various militaries during the war.  Simply put, some armies learned a great deal (the US and Red armies), others did not (the British army), and still others peaked early and slid down-hill (the German army).  My intent is to go beyond demonstrating this, to also show how this happened.

 

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