Jon Klug

Dr. Jonathan “Jon” Klug is a retired United States Army Colonel. He spent six years on faculty and staff at the U.S. Army War College. Jon was Associate Dean at the U.S. Army War College for his last year of active duty. He taught in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations for five years, which included World War II electives on European and Pacific Campaigns. He is the William F. Halsey Chair of Naval Studies.

Jon was commissioned as an Armor Officer from the United States Military Academy in 1995. He became an Army Strategist in 2005, and the War College selected him as an Army War College Professor in 2017. Jon has deployed to Haiti, Bosnia, South Korea, Egypt, Iraq, Germany, and three times to Afghanistan. He has planned at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. Jon served in three multi-star commander’s initiatives groups.

Dr. Klug has written extensively. As a doctrine author, he wrote U.S. Army, U.S. Joint, and NATO Joint doctrine. Jon wrote the first version of U.S. Joint Publication 3-24, Counterinsurgency Operations, co-authored the first version of Allied Joint Publication 3.4.4, Counterinsurgency, and co-authored U.S. Army Field Manual 3-07.1, Security Force Assistance. As an Army Strategist, Jon wrote strategic documents such as the U.S. Army Human Dimension Strategy and its corresponding Department of the Army Execution Order. In the academic arena, Dr. Klug co-edited three edited volumes and has written multiple chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and book reviews. He has also been a peer reviewer, including the U.S. Army War College’s Parameters.

An award-winning military and naval history instructor, Dr. Klug taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an M.A. from Louisiana State University, an M.M.A.S. from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies, and a Ph.D. in naval and military history from the University of New Brunswick. His dissertation was on the U.S. Navy’s logistics, for which he has an advance book contract with The University of Alabama Press’s Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology series.