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EARL H. TILFORD, JR. is the Director of Research and Senior Research Professor at the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute. In a 20-year Air Force career, he served in assignments ranging from intelligence officer in Thailand, nuclear targeteer at Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, and Instructor in the Department of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy to Editor of the Air University Review. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1989, Dr. Tilford was an Associate Professor of History at Troy State University, Montgomery, and a Visiting Professor of Military History at the Air Command and Staff College. In 1993 he assumed his current position at the Strategic Studies Institute. Dr. Tilford earned his B.A. and M.A. in History at the University of Alabama and his Ph.D. in American and European Military History at George Washington University. His most recent publication is Eagle in the Desert: A Look Back at the Persian Gulf War, a book he coedited with Air Force historian, Dr. William P. Head. Crosswinds: The Air Force's Setup in Vietnam, published in 1993 by Texas A&M University Press, offered a critical assessment of air power during the Vietnam War.

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