John Broom

Dr. John (Doc) T. Broom served as an NCO in Armor and Cavalry units, teaching history at the U.S. Army Armor Center and the Command General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Doc Broom has been with the Online Graduate Program in History since the beginning of the program and has served as the Associate Academic Director since 2007.  Doc lives in Southwest Missouri with his wife Lisa.

Dr. Broom holds a Ph.D. in History from the Graduate School of the Union Institute in Cincinnati Ohio, studying under Sir Michael Howard (Lovett Professor of History at Yale University) and Professor Jay Luvaas (Chair of the Strategy Department at the U.S. Army War College) as co-chair of his dissertation committee. His dissertation was on the development of the United States Army’s Experimental Mechanized Force in the 1930s and the influences on its tactical and operational doctrine. 

His principal area of study was a comparative study of British, German, and American diplomatic and military policy in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries from an intellectual history perspective. 

He has published numerous specialized encyclopedia articles, book reviews, and contributed to the anthology Compound Warfare: That Fatal Knot published by Fort Leavenworth Press.