Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner (27 May 1885 - 12 February 1961) served in the United States Navy during World War II. Turner was born in Portland, Oregon. Appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from California in 1904, he graduated in June 1908 and served in several ships over the next four years. In 1913, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Turner briefly held command of the destroyer "Stewart".

John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 - November 12, 1947) was an American authority on international law who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first US judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice (the "World Court"). He was born in Smyrna, Delaware, graduated at the University of Virginia in 1880, and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. From 1885 to 1886 he was a law clerk at the Department of State, then an Assistant Secretary of State.

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy. He has been hailed as the 'Dean of Cold War Historians' by the The New York Times. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th century statesman George F. Kennan. He is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by the United States of America during the Cold War, …

Dr. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (b. 1935), son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, now resides in the United States where he is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Khrushchev holds several advanced engineering degrees. From the Ukrainian Academy of Science, he earned his Soviet doctoral degree, and he earned a Ph.D. from the Moscow Technical University.

Raymond Ames Spruance (July 3, 1886 - December 13, 1969) was a United States Navy admiral in World War II, and commanded US naval forces at the turning point of the Pacific War, the Battle of Midway. As Nelson is sometimes called Nelson of Trafalgar, for his role in the famous victory over the French Navy, Spruance should be called Spruance of Midway for his role in the decisive victory over the Japanese Navy.

Eliot A. Cohen is a professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies department at SAIS and has specialized in strategic studies, the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO. He is a member of the Project for the New American Century and was called "the most influential neoconservative in academe" by energy economist Ahmad Faruqui.

Laurie Mylroie is a U.S. author who has written several controversial and heavily criticized books on the subject of Iraq and the War on Terror. Notably, Mylroie contends that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein sponsored the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and many subsequent terrorist attacks. She is one of a few commentators who has consistently held that Iraq was complicit and involved in the September 11th Attacks and subsequent anthrax postal attacks.

William Veazie Pratt (28 February 1869 - 25 November 1957) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He served as the president of the Naval War College and as the Chief of Naval Operations. Pratt was born in Belfast, Maine. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1889, he served in several cruisers and gunboats, visiting Europe, South America and Asia. During 1895-97, Ensign Pratt had the first of three instructor tours at the Naval Academy.

Tasker Howard Bliss (December 31,1853 - November 9, 1930) was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from September 22, 1917 until May 18, 1918. He was born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His parents were George Ripley Bliss and Mary Ann Raymond. His father taught Greek at the University at Lewisburg (now Bucknell University). After initially attending Bucknell where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, …

Stephen Edward Ambrose, Ph.D. (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon.

Edward Latimer Beach, Jr. (April 20, 1918 - December 1, 2002) was a highly-decorated, legendary United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author. During World War II, he participated in the Battle of Midway and 12 combat patrols, earning 10 decorations for gallantry, including the Navy Cross. After the war, he served as the naval aide to the President of the United States and commanded the first submerged circumnavigation.

Edward Walter Eberle (17 August 1864 - 1929) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who served as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy and third Chief of Naval Operations. Born at Denton, Texas, Eberle was reared at Fort Smith, Arkansas. He entered the Naval Academy on 28 September 1881 and graduated on 5 June 1885.

Thomas P.M. Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist.

Stephen Bleecker Luce (25 March 1827 - 28 July 1917) was a U.S. Navy admiral. He was the founder and first president of the Naval War College, between 1884 and 1886. Born in Albany, New York, Stephen Luce was one of the Navy's outstanding officers in many fields, including strategy, seamanship, education, and professional development. Entering the naval service 19 October 1841 as a midshipman, he served with the Atlantic coast blockaders during the American Civil War, …

Josiah Bunting III (born 1939) is an American educator. He has been a military officer, college president, and an author and speaker on education and Western culture.

Makubin Thomas Owens is an American military historian and conservative political figure. He is currently the the Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Directed Research and Professor of Strategy and Force Planning for the Naval War College, as well as a contributing editor to "National Review". Owens has previously served as a national security advisor to Senator Bob Kasten and in the Department of Energy under the Reagan administration.

Commodore Dudley Wright Knox (21 June 1877 - 11 June 1960) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War and World War I. He was also a prominent naval historian, who for many years oversaw the Navy Department's historical office, now named the Naval Historical Center.

Jesse Bartlett "Oley" Oldendorf (16 February 1887 - 27 April 1974) was an admiral in the United States Navy, famous for defeating a Japanese force in the Battle of Leyte Gulf during World War II. Graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1909, he served on cruisers and destroyers before World War I, then after assignments on a freighter and a transport, was engineering officer on the USS "Seattle", and executive officer of the transport "Patricia".

Walter Krueger (26 January 1881-20 August 1967) was a German-American soldier and general in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his command of the U.S. Sixth Army in the South West Pacific Area during World War II.

Henry Effingham Eccles (born in Bayside, New York, on 31 December 1898- died 14 May 1986 in Needham, Massachusetts) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and a major figure at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island from the late 1940s through the 1970s, as a thinker and writer on naval logistics and military theory.

James Russell Soley (1 October 1850 - 11 September 1911) was a lawyer and historian in the United States. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Soley graduated from Harvard College in 1870. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Ethics and English at the United States Naval Academy on 1 October 1871. Only two years later, he became Head of the Department of English Studies, History, and Law. On 9 June 1882, Soley was assigned to the Bureau of Navigation.

George Grafton Wilson (born in Plainfield, Connecticut on 29 March 1863 - died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 30 April 1951) was distinguished professor of International Law during the first half of the 20th century, serving on the faculties of Brown University, Harvard University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the U.S. Naval War College.

Charles Herbert Stockton (Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13 October 1845 - died in Washington, D.C., 31 May 1924) was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Navy's first uniformed expert in International Law.

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (born 10 July 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin - died 18 July 1998 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States.

John Haskell Kemble (1912-1990) was a professor of History at Pomona College and an influential American maritime historian.

Thodore Ropp (born 22 May 22 1911 in Hollywood, Illinois - died 2 December 2000 in Durham, North Carolina) was a professor at Duke University and recognized as the leading military historian in the United States.