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Norman Friedman (born 1946) is an American author, analyst, strategist, and historian.^[1] He has written over 30 books and numerous articles on naval and other military matters,^[1] has worked for theU.S. Navy andMarine Corps, and has appeared on television programs includingPBS, theDiscovery Channel,C-SPAN, andNational Geographic.^{[citation needed]}

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Friedman holds a bachelor's and a doctorate fromColumbia University in theoretical physics, completing his dissertationAdditional Scattering of Bloch Electrons by Simultaneous Imputity and Lattice Interaction in 1974.^[2][3] From 1973 to 1984, he was at theHudson Institute, becoming Deputy Director for National Security Affairs.^{[clarification needed]} He then^[when?] worked for the United States Navy as in-house consultant.^{[clarification needed]} From 2002 to 2004, he served as afuturologist for the United States Marine Corps.^[4] He has held the position of Visiting Professor of Operations Research,University College,University of London.^[5]

• Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War won the 2001Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature for the best military history book of 2000 from theBritish Royal United Services Institute.^[6]
• Seapower As Strategy: Navies and National Interests won the 2002Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature^[7][8]

• —; Baker, A. D. III; Raven, Alan (1984).U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History (First ed.).Naval Institute Press.ISBN 978-1682477595.LCCN 84014767.OCLC 12502364.OL 2852386M. Retrieved17 August 2022 – via theInternet Archive.
• — (1 September 1991). "The Future Shape of the U. S. Navy".The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.517 (1).American Academy of Political and Social Science:106–119.doi:10.1177/0002716291517001008.eISSN 1552-3349.ISSN 0002-7162.JSTOR 1047189.OCLC 1479265.S2CID 145473559.
• — (15 May 2006).The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems (5th ed.).Annapolis, Maryland:Naval Institute Press.ISBN 978-1557502629.LCCN 2005031194.OCLC 1131518158.OL 3415017M – viaGoogle Books.
• U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History,ISBN 978-1-55750-250-6
• U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History,ISBN 0-87021-739-9
• U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History,ISBN 978-0-87021-715-9
• U.S. Small Combatants, Including PT Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: An Illustrated Design History,ISBN 978-0-87021-713-5
• U.S. Naval Weapons,ISBN 978-0-85177-240-0
• U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine and Torpedo Used by the U.S. Navy from 1883 to the Present Day,ISBN 978-0-87021-735-7
• Naval Radar,ISBN 978-0-87021-967-2
• American and British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919–1941,ISBN 978-1-59114-380-2
• Battleship Design and Development 1905–1945,ISBN 978-0-83170-700-2
• Modern Warship: Design and Development,ISBN 978-0-83176-082-3
• Submarine Design and Development,ISBN 978-0-87021-954-2
• Seapower as Strategy: Navies and National Interests,ISBN 978-1-55750-291-9
• The US Maritime Strategy,ISBN 978-0-71060-500-9
• Postwar Naval Revolution,ISBN 978-0-85177-414-5
• Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War,ISBN 978-1-59114-287-4
• Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait,ISBN 978-1-55750-254-4
• Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War,ISBN 978-1-59114-290-4
• Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era,ISBN 978-1-59114-555-4
• Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations,ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7
• Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars,ISBN 978-1-59114-286-7
• British Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of the Ships and Their Aircraft,ISBN 978-0-87021-054-9
• The British Battleship: 1906–1946,ISBN 978-1-84832-225-7
• British Cruisers of the Victorian Era,ISBN 978-1-84832-099-4
• British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After,ISBN 978-1-84832-078-9
• British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War,ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9
• British Destroyers and Frigates: The Second World War and After,ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4
• Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology,ISBN 978-1-84832-189-2

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