The Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History at the University of New Orleans since 2006, and the Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military History, The Ohio State University, Allan R. Millett is a specialist in the history of American military policy and twentieth century wars and military institutions.
He is the author of seven books:
- The Politics of Intervention: The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1906-1909 (1968)
- The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army, 1881-1925 (1975)
- Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps (1980, revised edition, 1991)
- In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the United Stated Marine Corps, 1917-1956 (1993)
- Their War for Korea (2002)
- A House Burning: The War for Korea, 1945-1950 (2005)
- The Korean War (Historiography & Bibliography) (2007)
He co-authored with Williamson Murray, A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War (2000) which has won international acclaim and translation in Spanish, Chinese, and Hebrew. In collaboration with a former student, Dr. Peter Maslowski, he also wrote For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States, 1607-1983 (1984), (revised edition, 1994). He was co-editor (with Williamson Murray) and a contributor to Military Effectiveness, an acclaimed t here-volume history of military affair 1900-1945 (1988). Again working with Murray, he was co-editor of Calculations: Net Assessment and the Coming of World War II (1992) and Military Innovation (1996) to which he contributed two essays. As co-editor and contributor, Millett organized Commandants of the Marine Corps (2004), an anthology of twenty-eight essays.
In the past decade, Millett has become a specialist of international stature on the history of the Korean War. He began his work on the war as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor, Korean National Defense University in 1991, and a fellow of the Korea Foundation, 1996. In addition to his own original work, Professor Millett served as an editorial consultant for the Ministry of Defense, Republic of Korea, for the revised and translated Korean official history, The Korean War, 3 vols. (1998-1999) for which he arranged an American edition (2000-2001). He then served as co-editor of Mao’s Generals Remember Korea (2001) in collaboration with Professor Yi Xiaoping and Yu Bin. Professor Millett has already published twenty-seven essays, articles, encyclopedia entries and commentaries on the Korean War, and he was instrumental in the Department of Defense’s revision of the American deaths (all causes) statistics in the war from 54,246 to 36,574. The first volume of The War for Korea, entitled A House Burning: The War for Korea 1945-1950, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2005.
In December 2005, Millett became a professor emeritus at The Ohio State University where he directed sixty-four doctoral dissertations to completion since 1969, a national record in his specialty. In January 2006, he began a professional appointment in history at the University of New Orleans and the directorship of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies. He has also become the senior military advisor at The National World War II Museum.
Millett is married to Martha Ellen Farley-Millett, a former Ohio State graduate student in French history and a high school counselor and research specialist. They have one daughter, Eve. Professor Millett has two sons by a former marriage and four grandsons.
