Scott Gaitley
Affiliation:
Norwich University
Advisor:
Dr. William Kautt
Academic Interests:
19th & 20th Century Anglo-Irish History
U.S. Military History in the 20th & 21st Century
Afghanistan History and Culture
History of Nazi Germany
The Holocaust and Genocide
Race and Gender in the U.S. Military
U.S. Military History in the 20th & 21st Century
Afghanistan History and Culture
History of Nazi Germany
The Holocaust and Genocide
Race and Gender in the U.S. Military
Thesis:
Active Insurgency Over Previously – Offered Home Rule: Why the Irish Nationalists Movement Initiated War.
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Bio Note:
Scott received his MA in Military History from Norwich University in Northfield, VT in 2012. To date, he has spent five years (2007-2012) as an Air Force Reserve Historian for the 931st Air Refueling Group, McConnell Air Force Base, Wichita, Kansas. He wrote 6 annual and 11 monthly classified command Air Force histories. Scott completed two combat historian deployments, the first to Iraq in 2008-2009 and the second to Afghanistan in early 2010. In October of the same year, he began his Civil Service career after accepting a Department of Defense position, where he served as a Staff Historian for the Air Force Reserve Command Headquarters at Robins Air Force Base, Warner-Robins, Georgia. In March of 2011, he transferred to his current Historian position at the Combat Studies Institute located at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Additionally, while assigned to the Afghan Study Team Scott has written, “Ambushing the Taliban: A US Platoon in the Korengal Valley” in Vanguard of Valor: Small Unit Actions in Afghanistan - Volume 1 and “Securing Dan Patan: A US Infantry Squad’s Counterinsurgency Program in an Afghan Village” in Vanguard of Valor: Small Unit Actions in Afghanistan - Volume 2. His latest study pertains to a brigade-sized operation in Afghanistan and will become a separate volume in the Vanguard of Valor.
Additionally, while assigned to the Afghan Study Team Scott has written, “Ambushing the Taliban: A US Platoon in the Korengal Valley” in Vanguard of Valor: Small Unit Actions in Afghanistan - Volume 1 and “Securing Dan Patan: A US Infantry Squad’s Counterinsurgency Program in an Afghan Village” in Vanguard of Valor: Small Unit Actions in Afghanistan - Volume 2. His latest study pertains to a brigade-sized operation in Afghanistan and will become a separate volume in the Vanguard of Valor.
Updated August 2012
