John Guilmartin Jr.
John Guilmartin; B.S., United States Air Force Academy, 1962; M.A.,
1969; Ph.D., 1971, Princeton University.
Professor Guilmartin is an authority on military history, maritime
history, and the history of technology. He is an early modern Europeanist
whose research focuses primarily on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
He also is interested in aerospace history and has written about the
Vietnam war and the Gulf war.
Professor Guilmartin is well known for his Gunpowder and Galleys:
Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare in the Sixteenth Century
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974; 2nd, revised, edition, London: Conway Maritime Press, 2003). More recently he has
publishedGalleons and Galleys(London: Cassell, 2002)"The Cutting Edge: An Analysis of the Spanish Invasion
and Overthrow of the Inca Empire, 1532-1539 (Kenneth J. Andrien
and Rolena Adorno, eds., Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans
in the Sixteenth Century; Berkeley, University of California Press,
1991): 40-69 and A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of
Koh Tang (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M Press, 1995).
Professor Guilmartin is currently working on a general military history of the Vietnam war for Harvard University Press, tentatively titled The Unending War.
Professor Guilmartin also provides additional
pages.
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