Mark Clodfelter

Dr. Mark Clodfelter joined the National War College at the National Defense University in July 1997. He is a former Air Force officer who was a ground radar officer by trade. After serving radar tours at Myrtle Beach and South Korea, he spent the remainder of his career in military academia. That service has included two teaching tours in the History Department at the Air Force Academy, one at the Air Force's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base, and one as Air...See more

Dr. Mark Clodfelter joined the National War College at the National Defense University in July 1997. He is a former Air Force officer who was a ground radar officer by trade. After serving radar tours at Myrtle Beach and South Korea, he spent the remainder of his career in military academia. That service has included two teaching tours in the History Department at the Air Force Academy, one at the Air Force's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base, and one as Air Force ROTC Professor of Aerospace Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Air Force Academy, a master's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam (Free Press, 1989), Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945 (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with the American military experience. His area of expertise is American military history, with a special emphasis on airpower and the Vietnam War. See less