HAL M. FRIEDMAN is Chair and Professor of Modern History at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan. He is also the Administrator of the War Studies Group for Michigan State University’s Knowledge Commons online open access scholarship network. He has been both the Recording Secretary and the Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Society for Military History. He has also been an Adjunct Faculty Member for the Command and Staff College Distance Education Program in the College of Distance Education and Training at the Marine Corps University, a Graduate Senior Instructor in Norwich University's online Master of Arts in History Program, and an occasional Adjunct Lecturer of Strategy and Policy in the U.S. Naval War College’s Non-Resident Fleet Seminar Program. A 1987 graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and History (magna cum laude), he also took Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in the History of International Relations from Michigan State University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. Professor Friedman has published a trilogy on US national security policy in the immediate postwar Pacific and another trilogy on the transition of the US Naval War College from the Pacific War to the Cold War in the Pacific in the same time period. He is now working on several monographs that explore American naval planning for the defense and administration of the immediate postwar Pacific.
HOMEPORT: Ypsilanti, Michigan
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: History of U.S. National Security Affairs, History of American Foreign Relations, all periods but especially World War Two and the Cold War
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS:
Monographs
Annexation versus Trusteeship: Private Perspectives on U.S. Policy toward the Pacific Islands, January 1945-November 1947 (East Lansing, Michigan: KC Works, Knowledge Commons, Michigan State University), February 8, 2006, https://doi.org/10.17613/n0y4s-19k02
Blue versus Purple: The U.S. Naval War College, the Soviet Union, and the New Enemy in the Pacific, 1946 (Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2017).
Blue versus Orange: The U.S. Naval War College, Japan, and the Old Enemy in the Pacific, 1945-1946 (Newport, Rhode Island: U.S. Naval War College Press, 2013).
Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947 (Newport, Rhode Island: U.S. Naval War College Press, 2010).
Arguing over the American Lake: Bureaucracy and Rivalry in the U.S. Pacific, 1945-1947 (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2009).
Governing the American Lake: The US Defense and Administration of the Pacific, 1945-1947 (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2007).
Creating an American Lake: United States Imperialism and Strategic Security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).