Robert Williams

Robert F. Williams is a historian with Army University Press at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He earned his Ph.D. in military history at Ohio State University in 2023. His book, The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers who Shaped America’s Cold War Army comes out from Cornell University Press in March 2025. His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Military History, Military Review, On Point: The Journal of Army History, Modern War Institute, War on the Rocks, ARMY Magazine, VFW Magazine and various OpEds in newspapers and online outlets. Before becoming a historian, Before that, he served as an airborne infantryman with three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. His views are his alone and do not reflect those of Army University Press, the Combined Arms Center, or the United States Army.