Dr. Gary P. Cox

Dr. Gary P. Cox is a Tenure Professor of History at Gordon College in Barnesville, Georgia, where he has taught European history and western civilization courses for the past thirteen years. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Virginia, where he studied under Dr. Enno Kraehe, the doyen of Metternich scholars in the United States.

Dr. Cox spend twenty-two years in the United States Air Force, dividing his time between operational intelligence billets, where he taught threat systems to aircrews, and Air Force educational assignments. He served six years with the Department of History at the United States Air Force Academy, and was a member of the founding cadre of faculty who created the School of Advanced Air Power Studies, a graduate level program which is accredited by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges and whose graduates are selected to serve on the most senior staffs in the Department of Defense.

Dr. Cox's interests in modern military history (1618-1945) are reflected in his major publications that include The Halt in the Mud: French Strategic Planning from Waterloo to Sedan (Westview Press), “France,” a bibliographical essay in Researching World War I: A Handbook (Greenwood Press), and six major entries for The European Powers in the Great War: An Encyclopedia (Garland Press). He has twice been nominated by his students for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (1998; 2004). In his spare time Dr. Cox pursues a particularly masochistic form of land-navigational exercise that bears (as he performs it) some resemblance to the modern game of golf, and enjoys reading church history and theology. Summer 2007 marks his third year with SAIICA.