Biography
Col. (ret.) Gregory A. Daddis is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, has a MA from Villanova University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He currently holds the Melbern G. Glasscock Endowed Chair in American History at Texas A&M University.
He served for 26 years in the U.S. Army. He is a veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom and served as the Command Historian to the U.S. Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I) in Baghdad, Iraq. His final assignment in the army was as the Chief of the American History Division in the Department of History at the United States Military Academy.
Academically, Daddis specializes in Cold War history with an emphasis on the Vietnam War. He has authored six books, including his most recent with Oxford University Press, Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War Since 1945 (2025), and a trilogy on the American war in Vietnam with Oxford University Press. Daddis worked as an official advisor for the 2017 Ken Burns-Lynn Novick documentary, The Vietnam War, and has led multiple tours to Vietnam for educational purposes. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and National Interest magazine. Before joining the History Department at Texas A&M, he directed the Center for War and Society at San Diego State University.
Areas of Expertise
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Vietnam War
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Iraq Wars
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Cold War history and policy
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Social and cultural militarism
Recent News
- Gregory Daddis: Church of War
- Gregory Daddis: Are budget boosters actually breaking the military?Fellow Gregory A. Daddis breaks down the falsehoods and self-promotion featured in David Petraeus’ most recent Foreign Affairs opinion piece.
- Gregory Daddis: Stop Listening to David PetraeusFellow Gregory A. Daddis breaks down the falsehoods and self-promotion featured in David Petraeus’ most recent Foreign Affairs opinion piece.