Donald Abenheim has been a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, since 1985 with a focus on German and Austrian military history as well as defense policy and armed forces in a democracy. He secured a National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution in 1988, where he later became a research fellow from 2004 until 2012. He founded the Center for Civil Military Relations with colleagues in 1993 as part of NATO enlargement in central and eastern Europe. Abenheim has supervised various master’s theses written by Bundeswehr officers and published by the Carola Hartmann Miles Verlag in the so-called Monterey Series, including the works of Dr. Uwe Hartmann and Dr. Sven Lange. He is a member of the Clausewitz Society in Hamburg.  His publications include “Reforging the Iron Cross” (Princeton University Press, 1988/2014) and “Bundeswehr und Tradition” (Oldenbourg, 1989).  His forthcoming work from the ZMSBw/Potsdam is entitled: „Rettet den Staatsbürger in Uniform! Gedanken über Soldaten und Politik“.

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