LTC Rory McGovern

LTC Rory McGovern is an academy professor in the Department of History and War Studies at West Point. He commissioned from Boston College in 2005. As a field artillery officer, he held a variety of assignments in the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Infantry Division at every level from company fire support team up to division headquarters, including two deployments to Baghdad, Iraq. He subsequently served as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of History, and then as deputy G-5 for the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Kaiserslautern, Germany, before returning to the department.

LTC McGovern holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Boston College, a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a specialist in American military history, and his published work focuses on processes of change and reform in the United States Army from the Civil War through World War I.