Douglas Porch is a historian and a professor at the Naval Postgraduate Schoolin Monterey, California. He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval WarCollege and has lectured at the U.S. Army War College and the NATO DefenseCollege in Rome, Italy. He is the author of various books on military history,including The Conquest of the Sahara and The French Foreign Legion. He lives in Pebble Beach, California.