Claude Berube earned a B.A. in History and Soviet Studies from Saint Anselm College, a Master's Degree in History from Northeastern University, and a Master's Degree in National Security from the Naval War College. He also has studied at National Defense University and is currently working on his PhD in military history with a focus on British-American naval relations prior to World War II. He has worked for two U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill, for a defense firm, and as a civilian for the Office of Naval Intelligence as the head of a terrorism analysis team. A Navy Reserve officer, he has been mobilized several times. He served aboard USS BUNKER HILL (CG 52) with the BONHOMME RICHARD Expeditionary Strike Group during its deployment to the Middle East in 2004-05, which included anti-piracy operations, maritime interdiction operations, and humanitarian relief operations in Sumatra immediately after the tsunami disaster of 2004.

 

He is the co-author of “A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution” and of “Congress: Games and Strategies" with Prof. Steve Frantzich. He was a contributor to: "The Encyclopedia of Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History" (NY: Facts on File, 2007), and encyclopedias on the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War.

 

His articles have appeared in Naval Institute Proceedings, Naval History, Maine History, Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly, the Journal of Military History, the Journal of the Early Republic, Orbis, and several newspapers. He has been a guest speaker at several institutions, and has been interviewed on radio programs and on C-SPAN’s BookTV.