Robert Allan Doughty (born November 4, 1943) is an American military historian and retired United States Army officer.

Doughty was born inTullos, Louisiana, on November 4, 1943, to parents John and Georgia Doughty.^[1][2]

He attended theUnited States Military Academy, graduating in 1965. Doughty subsequently completed a tour of duty in Germany before deploying to Vietnam in an advisory role in 1968. Upon his return to the United States, Doughty pursued graduate study, earning a master's degree from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles in 1972, followed by a doctorate from theUniversity of Kansas in 1979. From 1979 to 1981, Doughty served a second stint in Germany. In 1985, he was named head of the history department at West Point, and retired from the position in 2005.^[1][2]

Doughty devoted much of his career to studying French military actions during the world wars.^[3] He held theHarold Keith Johnson Chair in Military History at theU.S. Army Military History Institute from 1995 to 1996.^[4]

He is the father of the singer-songwriterMike Doughty.^[5]

In 1986, Doughty received thePaul Birdsall Prize from theAmerican Historical Association.^[6] TheSociety for Military History named him the 2006 awardee of theSamuel Eliot Morison Prize [de].^[7]

• Doughty, R. A. (2014) [1985].The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919–39 (Stackpole, Mechanicsburg, PA ed.). Hamden, CT: Archon Books.ISBN 978-0-8117-1460-0.
• Doughty, Robert A. (1990).The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940. Archon Books.ISBN 978-0-208-02281-3.^[8]
• Doughty, Robert A.;Flint, Roy K.;Gruber, Ira D. (1995).Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations from 1600 to 1871. Vol. I. D.C. Heath.ISBN 978-0-669-20939-6.^[9]
• Doughty, Robert A.; Flint, Roy K. (1995).Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871. Vol. II. Cengage Learning.ISBN 978-0-669-20940-2.^[10]
• Doughty, Robert A. (2005).Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Belknap.ISBN 978-0-674-01880-8.^[11]

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• United States Army officers
• People from LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
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• University of Kansas alumni
• University of California, Los Angeles alumni
• American military historians
• Historians of World War I
• American historians of World War II
• Historians of France
• Historians from Louisiana
• United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War

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