The SHAPE Historian
Dr. Gregory Pedlow has been Chief of the Historical Office at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe since 1989; this post is often also referred to as the SHAPE Historian. Previously he served as a historian for the U.S. Government in Washington, DC, and before that as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. He also served 28 years in the U.S. Army Reserve as a military intelligence officer, civil affairs officer, and military historian, including two years of active duty from 1972-1974, before transferring to the Retired Reserve in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1998.
In 1970 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, followed by Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees in modern European history from the Johns Hopkins University in 1972 and 1979 respectively. He is also a graduate of the following U.S. Army courses: Infantry Officer Basic Course, Intelligence Officer Advanced Course, Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College. |
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His publications include The Survival of the Hessian Nobility, 1770-1870; The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974; "The Politics of NATO Command, 1950‑1962”; "Allied Crisis Management for Berlin: The LIVE OAK Organization, 1959‑1963”; NATO Strategy Documents, 1949-1969; "Flexible Response Before MC 14/3: General Lauris Norstad and the Second Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962”, and "Back to the Sources: General Zieten's Message to the Duke of Wellington on 15 June 1815”.
In addition to his work on NATO's history he is a well-known expert on the Waterloo campaign of 1815 and is currently completing work as co-author of On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington, and the Campaign of 1815, which includes a translation from the original German of General Carl von Clausewitz's history of the Campaign of 1815 plus analysis of the writings of Clausewitz and the Duke of Wellington on Waterloo.