John C. Lonnquest

John Lonnquest is the Chief of the Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He received a B.A. in history from Washington College and a Ph. D in history from Duke University in 1966. After graduation, he joined the Air Force history program in 1997 and be came a USACE historian in 2000. As a staff historian he served as director of the Corps of Engineers' oral history program, directed its wide-ranging field history program, and led the Corps' Iraq and Agahan history...See more

John Lonnquest is the Chief of the Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He received a B.A. in history from Washington College and a Ph. D in history from Duke University in 1966. After graduation, he joined the Air Force history program in 1997 and be came a USACE historian in 2000. As a staff historian he served as director of the Corps of Engineers' oral history program, directed its wide-ranging field history program, and led the Corps' Iraq and Agahan history teams. He became Chief of the Office of History in 2008. In addition to being the co-author of To Defend and Deter, Dr. Lonnquest was the editor of A Guide to Source Material on Ballistic Missile Defense, and the co-editor of Remembering the Forgotten War: U.S. Army Engineers Officers in Korea. He lives with his wife and two children in Oakton, Virginia. See less