Curriculum vitae
Colonel Edward B. Westermann
Department of Military Strategic Studies
(719) 333-9402
Academic Positions
Senior Military Professor and Professor of Military Strategic Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy (May 07-present)
Senior Military Professor and Associate Professor of Comparative Military History and
Associate Professor of Comparative Military History and Theory, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (Sep 03-Jun 06)
Assistant Professor of Comparative Military History and Theory, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (Jul 02-Apr 03)
Instructor and Assistant Professor of
Education
PhD in Modern European History,
Fields: Modern
Fulbright Fellow, Freie Universität
MA in Airpower Art and Science, School of Advance Airpower Studies, Maxwell AFB,
MA in European History, The
Major Field: Modern Germany Minor Field: Northeast Africa/Middle East
BS,
Professional Organizations
Member of the German Studies Association
Member of the Society for Military History
Fellowships
· German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Summer Seminar Fellowship, UC,
· Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Freie Universität
· DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship (1999)
· Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies fellow-US Holocaust Memorial Museum Summer Workshop (1999)
· DAAD Faculty Research Fellowship (2003)
· US-Russian Executive Program,
Academic and Professional Honors
· Outstanding Student in Military History,
· Distinguished Graduate (summa cum laude equivalent),
· Named
· Inducted into Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society (1994)
· Recipient of the Ira Eaker Award for the outstanding article in the Airpower Journal (1995)
· Recipient of the 1998 John L. Snell Prize from the Southern Historical Association
for the outstanding graduate student paper in European history for the 1997-98
academic year (competition open to graduate students from all Southern universities)
· Recipient of the 1999 national award from the League of WWI Aviation Historians for the best student paper relating to WWI aviation.
· Recipient of the Stone and Stone Editor’s Choice Award-Outstanding Book on WWII in 2001
· Recipient of the 2002 Moncado article prize from the Society of Military History
· Selected for Marquis’ “Who’s Who in
· Honorable Mention John A. Adam’s Center Annual Cold War Essay Contest, 2006
· Selected for Marquis’ “Who’s Who in
· Selected for Marquis’ “Who’s Who in the World, 2007”
· Selected for Marquis’ “Who’s Who in
· Selected for Marquis’ “Who’s Who in the World, 2008”
· Recipient of the USAF Academy Department of Military Strategic Studies’ Bleckley Award as the Outstanding Instructor for Military Theory and Strategy (AY 2006-2007)
· Member of the Royal Air Force Centre for Airpower Studies International Advisory Panel (2007)
Publications
Published Books
Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (
Flak: German Anti-aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945 (
Books under Contract
Witnessing Hitler’s
Book Chapters and Articles
“The Killers,” in Peter Hayes and John Roth, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009)
“Relegated to the Backseat: Farm Gate and the Failure of the American Advisory Effort in Vietnam, 1961-1963,” in Donald Stoker, ed., Military Advisors and Missions, 1815-2005 (NY: Taylor and Francis, forthcoming 2007)
“Ideology and Organizational Culture: Creating the Police-Soldier, 1933-1945,” in Dagmar Herzog, ed., Lessons and Legacies: The Holocaust in International Perspective (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006).
“Redefining the Former Warsaw Pact Nations,” in Karl Magyar, ed., United States Post-Cold War Defence Interests: A Review of the First Decade (Palgrave, 2004), 79-92.
“The Most Unlikely of Allies: Hitler and Haile Selassie and the Defense of Ethiopia, 1935-36” in Donald Stoker and Jonathan Grant, ed., Girding for Battle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 155-175.
“Hitting the Mark, but Missing the Target: Luftwaffe Decoy and Deception Operations, 1939-1945” War in History (Spring 2003), 206-221.
“Shaping the Police Soldier as an Instrument for Annihilation” in Alan E. Steinweis and Daniel Rogers, ed., The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 129-150.
“Battling for the Heavens from the Ground Below: German Ground-based Air Defenses in the Great War,” The Journal of Military History (July 2001), 641-670.
“The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz: First Deliberations, January 1941,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 15:1 (April 2001), 70-85; reprinted as “The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz: First Deliberations, January 1941,” in David Cesarani, ed., The Holocaust: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, vol. 5, (Routledge, 2004), 195-211.
“Holocaust: Mass Murder” and “Holocaust: The System” in Dennis E. Showalter, ed. History in Dispute: World War II, vol. 5, (
“Holocaust Theories” in Dennis E. Showalter, ed., History in Dispute: World War II, vol.4, (
“The Limits of Soviet Airpower: The Failure of Military Coercion in
“‘Ordinary Men’ or “Ideological Soldiers’?: Police Battalion 310 in Russia, 1942,” German Studies Review 21 (February 1998), 41-68; reprinted as “‘Ordinary Men’ or “Ideological Soldiers’?: Police Battalion 310 in Russia, 1942,” in Gordon Martel, ed., The World War II Reader (Routledge, 2004), 200-225.
“Himmler’s Uniformed Police on the Eastern Front: The Reich’s Secret Soldiers, 1941-1942,” War in History 3 (November 1996), 309-329.
“The Holocaust Course at the United States Air Force Academy,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 548 (November 1996), 116-122.
“’Friend and Helper’: German Uniformed Police Operations in Poland and the General Government, 1939-1941,” The Journal of Military History 58 (October 1994), 643-661.
“In the Shadow of War: German Arms Shipments and Loans to Ethiopia, 1935-1936,” in Harold G. Marcus, ed., New Trends in Ethiopian Studies (Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1994), 1036-1052.
“Contemporary Civil-Military Relations: Is the Republic in Danger,” Airpower Journal (Spring 1995).
“Air Rescue Service: A Direction for the Twenty-first Century?,” Airpower Journal (Fall 1990).
Encyclopedia Entries
Signed entries as contributor to Richard S. Levy, ed., The Encyclopedia of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice, and Persecution (
Signed entries as contributor to Dieter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, eds., Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture (New York: Garland, 1998), 633, 752-753, 856, 947-948.
Papers and Presentations
International Conferences:
“The German Police and Anti-Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union,” Conference on Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in German Occupied Europe,
“Relegated to the Backseat: The Failure of the
“The Kriegstagebuch (War Diary) as a Source for Examining the Holocaust,” Conference for the Society of Military History,
“Pulling the Trigger or Opting Out: German Policemen and the Prosecution of Mass Murder,” Conference for the Society of Military History,
“A Perfect Marriage of Convenience: The Wehrmacht and the Ordnungspolizei and the Conduct of Anti-partisan Warfare,” Lessons and Legacies VIII,
“The Language of Annihilation: Words and Meanings in German Police Reports, 1939-1945,” German Studies Association Conference in
“Ideology and Organizational Culture: Creating the Police-Soldier, 1933-1945,” Lessons and Legacies VII,
“In the Shadow of War: German Arms Shipments and Loans to
“Teaching the Holocaust at the
“The Militarization of the German Uniformed State Police Organizations, 1933-1939,” Conference for the Society of Military History,
National Conferences:
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“German Uniformed Police Operations in
Invited Talks and Presentations:
“Creating an Organization for Annihilation: The German Police and the Holocaust,” at the
“Annihilation: The German Police and the Conduct of Genocide,” Keynote Address at the
“Reflections on the Holocaust,” Keynote Speaker at the State of
“The Ideology of Annihilation: The German Police and the Conduct of Genocide,” Center for Force and Diplomacy,
Regional Seminars (
“Die Ordnungspolizei als Tätergruppe,”
“Sicherheit und Stabilität aus amerikanischer Sicht: Regionale Schwerpunkte der amerikanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik,” Regionalseminar Göttingen, Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, Mar 01.
“Sicherheit und Stabilität aus amerikanischer Sicht: Regionale Schwerpunkte der amerikanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik,” Regionalseminar Mainz, Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, Aug 01.
“Sicherheit und Stabilität aus amerikanischer Sicht: Regionale Schwerpunkte der amerikanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik,” Regionalseminar Göttingen, Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, Oct 01.
Courses Taught
History 101-Introduction to World History
History 202-Introduction to Military History (Asst. Course Director)
History 345-Modern European History (Course Director)
History 495-The Holocaust (co-taught with Prof. Dennis Showalter)
Humanities 495-The Holocaust (Course Director for an interdisciplinary approach to the Holocaust involving the Departments of History, English, and Philosophy)
Area Studies 495G-Modern German History (Course Director for a course on German history presented in German)
School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (
SAASS 600-Comparative Military Theory
SAASS 627-The History of Air Power from 1918 to 1945 (Course Director)
SAASS 690-Director of Research (Responsible for school research instructional program in support of an accredited M.A. degree)
MSS 382-Air, Space, and Information Power Theory (Course Director)
MSS 468-Technology. Innovation, and Transformation (Course Director)
MSS 400S-Counterinsurgency Warfare (Course Director for Scholar’s Offering of MSS 400
