Kenneth J. Hagan

Kenneth James Hagan is an American naval historian and retired faculty member of the United States Naval Academy and of the Naval War College's distance education faculty located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Early life and education Born in Oakland, California on February 20, 1936, Hagan graduated with honors in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1958. After serving in the United States Navy from 1958 to 1963, he returned to Berkeley, where he earned his master of arts degree in 20th Century U.S. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1964. He then went on to the Claremont Graduate School, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1970. He married and had three children.

Naval career After attending the Naval Officer Candidate School, Hagan was commissioned an Ensign in 1958. Specializing as an intelligence officer, he was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, stationed on Guam and deployed to five different aircraft carriers with a photographic reconnaissance squadron in 1959–1961. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade) and then, Lieutenant, he taught intelligence subjects at the Pacific Fleet Operational Intelligence Training Center at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, California, in 1961–1963. After leaving active duty, he was affiliated with various Naval Reserve Intelligence Units from 1964 to 1980, when he became Executive Officer, Naval Intelligence Command Estimates Unit 0166. He served as Editor, Naval Intelligence Quarterly in 1979, 1980, and 1982, then was Commanding Officer, Naval Intelligence Command Estimates Unit 0166 from 1982 to 1984. He retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain. From 1976, he served as curriculum advisor to the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps and instructor for new instructors of Naval Science 202, "Sea Power and Maritime Affairs."

Books By 2015, he had published seven books, nineteen books chapters, eleven articles and twenty-five encyclopedia entries on American naval history. American gunboat diplomacy and the old Navy, 1877–1889 (1973). American foreign policy: a history, by Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan (1977, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010). In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History, edited by Kenneth J. Hagan. (1978, 1984, 2008). Against all enemies: interpretations of American military history from colonial times to the present, edited by Kenneth J. Hagan and William R. Roberts (1986). This People's Navy: the Making of American Sea Power (1991). Unintended consequences: the United States at war, by Kenneth J. Hagen and Ian J. Bickerton (2007) Strategy in the American War of Independence: a global approach, edited by Donald Stoker, Kenneth J. Hagan and Michael T. McMaster (2010).