CHARLES P. NEIMEYER, Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Warfare, U.S. Naval War College holds degrees from Georgetown University (Ph.D. and M.A. with distinction), the Naval War College, M.A. with high honors, and the University of Maryland (B.A.. He retired from the US Marinc Corps in 1996 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel having served in all three active Marine Corps Divisions to include tours on the military staff of Presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton and on the faculty at the Naval War College where he served for 2.5 years as the Dean of Academics there. He researches and publishes extensively on a wide variety of military history topics and eras to include the War of American Independence, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, both 20th century world wars, the Korean Conflict (especially the Chosin Reservoir campaign), and most recently wrote a book on the U.S. Marine Corps during the Cold War (Marine Corps University Press, 2024) U.S. Marine Corps history, U.S. Navy history, American and British military and naval history, military leadership, and the two 20th-century world wars. He lectures extensively at public venues and historical associations throughout the United States, is a Life Member of the Naval Order (Newport Commandery), a member of the Army-Navy Club, Washington DC, and served for 11 years (2006 to 2018) as the Director and Chief of Marine Corps History, Quantico, Virginia.
HOMEPORT: Quantico, Virginia
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: All Major U.S. Wars and especially the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the U.S. Civil War, World War I &II, Korea, and the Cold War
NOTABLE BOOKS, PAPERS, and PRESENTATIONS:
May 2024 – Published book, Marines in Crisis: The Cold War Transformation of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1947-1995, (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2024.
March 2023 – Published chapter on Chosin Reservoir Campaign in Timothy G. Heck, et al, Armies in Retreat, (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Army University Press, 2023) February 2020 – Presented a lecture on Operation Detachment at the National WWII Museum, New Orlean, LA October 2019: Wrote the lead chapter, “Black Sand and Blood: The 36-Day Battle for Iwo Jima, 19 February – 26 March 1945,” in Investigating Iwo: The Flag Raisings in Myth, Memory and Esprit de Corps, Breanne Robertson, Contributing Editor, (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps History Division, 2019). February 2018: “Leathernecks: The U.S. Marine Corps in the Age of the Barbary Pirates,” The Trafalgar Chronicle, New Series, Number Two, (Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2018. June 2017: “The Naval Theater,” in James Kirby Martin and David Preston, Eds., The Theaters of the American Revolution, (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2017). February 2017: “The Rocket’s Red Glare: Francis Scott Key and the Star Spangled Banner,” The Trafalgar Chronicle, New Series, Number One, (Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2017). June 2015: War in the Chesapeake: The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813-1814, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press). This book received the Simmons-Shaw award for the best history by a federal historian given by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, April 2017. November 2010: “The Continental Army,” in James C. Bradford, Ed., A Companion to Military History, Vol. 1, (Oxford, UK: Blackwell-Wiley, 2010). October 2010: “U.S. Marines in the Korean War, 1950-1953,” Naval History.
September 2008: Presented a paper on “The British Occupation of Newport, Rhode Island, 1776-1779,” at the 34th International Conference of Military Historians (ICMH) in Trieste, Italy and participated in a book panel discussion on irregular warfare at the same conference. This paper was later published in Army History Magazine, Winter, 2010. September 2008: “Continental Marines: The 1778 Willing Expedition,” in Leatherneck, September 2008. : April 2008, “Combat in Nicaragua, 1927-1933,” in the Marine Corps Gazette, April 2008. November 2007: “Town Born, Turn Out: Town Militias, Tories, and the Struggle for Control of the Massachusetts Backcountry,” in John Resch and Walter Sargent, Eds., War and Society in the American Revolution, (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007). September 2007: Presented a paper to the US Naval Academy History Symposium on the USMC Counterinsurgency Effort in Nicaragua, 1927-1933. Selected as one of the symposium papers published by the U.S. Naval Academy History Department. February 2007: Published a monograph, The American Revolution, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007). April 2005: Presented a paper, “Landing at Veracruz, 1914: Expeditionary Warfare Meets Urban Warfare,” for the U.S. Naval Academy History Symposium, April 2005. Fall 2004: “Rhode Island Goes to War, 1776-1778,” in Newport History, Fall 2004. September 2003: Presented a lecture at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, “George Washington as Commander in Chief.” September 2000: Presented a lecture on preserving the Battle of Rhode Island battlefield site at the National Park Service 5th Annual Conference on Battlefield Preservation, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 18-21, 2000. December 1996: Published (NYU Press) America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army, 1775-1783. Autumn/Winter 1994-95: “Once and Future Marines,” (with Thomas C. Linn) in Joint Forces Quarterly.