Claude Berube, PhD, FRHistS

Dr. Claude Berube wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Navy during Andrew Jackson’s presidency. He was a 2004 Brookings Institution LEGIS Fellow and a 2010 Maritime Security Studies Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He has worked on political campaigns, as an analyst and team leader at the Office of Naval Intelligence, and as a defense contractor for Naval Sea Systems Command and the Office of Naval Research. He served on Capitol Hill three times in the House and Senate including as the national security fellow for US Senator Susan Collins.

He has taught for two decades as both a military officer and civilian in the Political Science and History Departments at the United States Naval Academy where his courses included American Government, Terrorism, Campaigns & Elections, Intelligence & National Security, Maritime Security Challenges, Naval History, and Emergent Naval Warfare.

He is a retired intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He served on active duty assignments in Europe at the Office of Naval Intelligence, Joint Analysis Center Molesworth, UK, and as Deputy Director of Intelligence with Joint Task Force Guantanamo. He deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2004-2005 with Expeditionary Strike Group Five. He is a contributing editor at War on the Rocks and the author or co-author of several books including A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution, On Wide Seas: The US Navy in the Jacksonian Era, Rickover Uncensored, Congress: Games and Strategies, and Maritime Private Security Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism, and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21^st Century. He is also the author of a fiction series focused on maritime issues and China (Pariah, Privateer, and The Philippine Pact.)

He established the naval history podcast “Preble Hall” which he hosted for four years. He is president of Seaward Strategies, LLC.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Leeds
• M.A., Naval War College
• M.A., Northeastern University
• B.A., Saint Anselm College