PRESENTS  Mark Clodfelter Professor Emeritus of Strategy & Policy National War College Author Between Two Shades of Blue  From Footnotes to Fiction: Historian Turns Novelist in Between Two Shades of Blue  Mark Clodfelter is a National War College professor emeritus, who also served as an Air Force officer for almost 23 years.  After radar tours at Myrtle Beach and South Korea, he spent the remainder of his Air Force career in military academia. That service included two teaching tours in the Air Force Academy’s History Department, one at the Air Force’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), and one as Air Force ROTC Professor of Aerospace Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  During his time in uniform and at National War College, Mark wrote extensively, and is the author of The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam, Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945, Violating Reality: The Lavelle Affair, Nixon, and Parsing the Truth and Fifty Shades of Friction: Combat Climate, B-52 Crews, and the Vietnam War, along with numerous articles and book chapters dealing with the American military experience.  Mark holds a BS from the US Air Force Academy, an MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina. His area of expertise is American military history, with a special emphasis on air power and the Vietnam War.  Between Two Shades of Blue, which he began writing in 1995, is his first novel. After retiring from National War College in 2019, he and his wife, Donna, moved to Chapel Hill, where he completed the book in spring 2022.

Date: December 7th
Time: 12:00 pm MST
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