Naval History and Heritage Command

Mark D. Mandeles, Ph.D., is president of J. de Bloch Group, a defense consulting firm. He is an adjunct professor at The Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. His most recent book is Military Transformation Past and Present: Historical Lessons for the 21st Century, which examines how different military services are organized to learn, accumulate, and  retrieve knowledge, and how their particular organization affected the equipment they acquired and the quality of doctrine and concepts used in combat. His most recent co-authored work is Innovation in Carrier Aviation, with Thomas C. Hone and Norman Friedman.