THOMAS J. CUTLER is a retired lieutenant commander and former second class gunner’s mate who has been serving the U.S. Navy in various capacities for nearly sixty years, including an in-country tour in Viet Nam and sea duty in cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and patrol craft. A former faculty member in the Seamanship & Navigation and History Departments at the U.S. Naval Academy, he is currently the U.S. Naval Institute Historian, holds the Institute’s Gordon England Chair of Professional Naval Literature, and is a Distinguished Fleet Professor of Strategy and Policy with the Naval War College (since 1992). He has received the William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education as military teacher of the year at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Naval Literature, the U.S. Maritime Literature Award, the Naval Institute Press Author of the Year Award, and the Commodore Dudley Knox Lifetime Achievement Award in Naval History.
HOMEPORT: Maryland
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Vietnam (Brown Water Navy); World War II (Battle of Leyte Gulf).
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RADM Thomas Cutler, USN (Ret.), is the author of many articles and books, including five editions of The Bluejacket’s Manual; A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy; The Battle of Leyte Gulf; Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam; Dutton’s Nautical Navigation-15th edition; The Battle of Leyte Gulf at 75: A Retrospective; The Brown Water War at 50: A Retrospective on the Coastal and Riverine Conflict in Vietnam, and, most recently, Give Me a Fast Ship: The Heroic Actions of Ernest Evans and the Crew of USS Johnston. He has received the William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education as military teacher of the year at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Naval Literature, the U.S. Maritime Literature Award, the Naval Institute Press Author of the Year Award, and the Commodore Dudley Knox Lifetime Achievement Award in Naval History.