Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a 1969 West Point graduate who served 36 years in uniform in numerous command and staff positions. He is a decorated combat veteran whose military assignments included the Leadership Division of the Department of the Army general staff and the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. His final active-duty assignment was as the director of the Combat Studies Institute, the history department of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. As a military historian, he has authored several books and published over 300 articles in history journals and magazines.