Today’s guest is historian and closet economist Clifford J. Rogers. Cliff is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Before arriving in West Point, he was a Fulbright fellow at the Institute for Historical Research in London and an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at Yale. He was also a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea. Cliff triple-majored in Economics, History, and Policy Studies for his BA at Rice University, and earned his MA and PhD in History from The Ohio State University.
Cliff is the author of War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 (Boydell and Brewer) and Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Middle Ages (Greenwood), among other works. He has twice won De Re Militari’s Verbruggen Prize, once for War Cruel and Sharp and again for Soldiers’ Lives, and also received that association’s Bachrach Medal. Cliff is the recipient of the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize Medal and has been awarded the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award on three occasions.
In addition to his monographs, Cliff has edited and co-edited multiple volumes, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, which received the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award. He has published articles in The Journal of Medieval History, War in History, English Historical Review, and the Journal of Military History, among many others. His article “The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years War” was awarded the Society for Military History’s Moncado Prize. Cliff co-founded The Journal of Medieval Military History and serves as co-Senior Editor of the digital West Point History of Warfare. In 2016, he received the George C. Marshall Foundation Prize for the Use of Digital Technology in Teaching Military History for his work on that project.
Join us for a deep chat about forks in the road, Dungeons and Dragons, Van Morrison, and New York BBQ. Cliff unwittingly delivers a master-class on military revolutions and revolutions in military affairs - you won’t be disappointed.
Shoutout to Smoky Rock BBQ in Rhinebeck, New York!
Rec.: 11/10/2023
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