Norman Friedman, P.h.D. is an American author and naval analyst. He has written over 30 books on naval matters, and appeared on television programs on PBS and the Discovery Networks. His book Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War won the 2001 Westminster Prize for the best military history book of the previous year, from the British Royal United Services Institute

Royal United Services Institute

The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies , officially still known by its old name, the Royal United Services Institution, is a British defence and security think tank. It was founded in 1831 by The Duke of Wellington.RUSI describes itself asIt won Prospect Magazine's...

Background

Friedman holds a doctorate in theoretical physics from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. From 1973 to 1984 he was at the Hudson Institute

Hudson Institute

The Hudson Institute is an American think tank founded in 1961, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation...

, becoming Deputy Directory for National Security Affairs. The then worked for the United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

 as in-house consultant. From 2002 to 2004 he served as a futurologist for the United States Marine Corps

United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...

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Selected Books

• U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History -
• Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems -
• Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnaught Era -
• Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars -
• Naval Radar -
• Modern Warship: Design and Development -
• Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War -
• Seapower As Strategy: Navies and National Interests -
• Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War -

External links

• US Naval Institute Listing