David Fitzgerald

David Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork, Ireland. His research focuses on modern American military history and foreign policy. More specifically, he works on the history of American counterinsurgency, questions of military intervention, and on the intersections between the US military and broader American society and culture.

David is the author of Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine from Vietnam to Iraq (Stanford, 2013), which was a finalist for the Society of Military History’s Edward M. Coffman Prize. He is also the co-author of Obama, US Foreign policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention (Palgrave, 2014) and co-editor of How the United States Ends Wars (Berghahn, 2020). His newest book, Militarization and the American Century: War, the United States and the World since 1941 (Bloomsbury, 2022), examines how war has shaped the history of the United States, as well as its relations with the rest of the world, since 1941.