LCDR Claude Berube, USNR, earned a B.A. in History and Soviet Studies from Saint Anselm College, an M.A. in History from Northeastern University, and an M.A. in National Security from the Naval War College. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation in military history with a focus on the Jacksonian Era U.S. Navy.

He has worked for two U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill and as a civilian for the Office of Naval Intelligence as the head of a terrorism analysis team. As 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 humanitarian relief operations in Sumatra immediately following the tsunami disaster of 2004, maritime interception operations in the Arabian Sea, and anti-piracy off the Horn of Africa. In 2010, he was a Visiting Fellow for Maritime Studies at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a guest speaker at several institutions and has been interviewed on radio and television programs such as Voice of America and C-SPAN's BookTV.

 

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.

COURSES TAUGHT
FP130, American Government and Constitutional Development
HH104, Naval History
FP372, Campaigns & Elections
FP407, Intelligence and National Security
FP471C, Maritime Security Challenges for the 21st Century (Spring 2009)
FP471E, Global War on Terrorism (Spring 2007)
FP486E, Emergent Naval Warfare (Spring 2009)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books (Non-Fiction)

• “A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution,” Potomac Books 2005 (co-author)
•  “Congress: Games and Strategies” (3rd and 4th editions), 2007 and 2009 (co-author with Steve Frantzich)
•  “Private Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and 21st Century Security Challenges,” (co-editor with Patrick Cullen, pending)

Articles

• “American Thunder Childs: U.S. Navy Ram Ships in the 19th Century,” Naval History, June 2010 (http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2010-06)
• “The Ship is the Visual, Even in the Shadow Zones,” Small Wars Journal, May 2010
• “Ho Chi Minh and the OSS,” Vietnam Magazine, December 2009
• “Security at Sea,” Forbes.com, May 2009
• “The Post-Oceanic Navy, the New Shadow Zones, and the U.S. Navy’s Force Structure Challenges,” Small Wars Journal, May 2009
• “Private Security Companies and Piracy,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, March 2009
• “The Navy Can Handle the Truth: Creative Friction without Conflict,” Naval Institute Proceedings, February 2009
• “Private Naval Companies for Humanitarian Operations,” Journal of International Peacekeeping Operations, October 2008
• “Budget Battles, Interest Groups and Relevancy in a New Era: The 1837 Ship of the Line USS Pennsylvania,” Naval Institute Proceedings, January 2008
• “Contracts of Marque,” Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2007
• “Blackwaters for the Blue Waters: The Promise of Private Naval Companies,” Orbis, October 2007
• “10 Leadership Lessons from a 62-year Naval Career,” Naval Institute Proceedings, August 2003 (2nd Place Astor Leadership Essay Contest)
• “The Court-Martial of Commodore Charles Stewart” Naval History, October 2002

Op-Eds

• “Anti-Piracy, Inc.” The Washington Times, March 2010
• “From DADT to DKDC,” U.S. Naval Institute blog, February 2010
• “Somalia’s Piracy Problem is Everyone’s Problem,” Christian Science Monitor, December 2008
• “Chamberlain’s Ghost in Salem’s Lot,” Bangor Daily News, May 2008

Book Reviews

• “Small Boats, Dirty Money,” Naval War College Review, July 2009
• “Pirates: Parasites, not Philanthropists,” The Washington Times, May 2009
• “Bernard Fall: Memoirs of a Soldier-Scholar,” Naval History, April 2008
• “Six Frigates,” Journal of the Early Republic, July 2007
• “The Past as Prologue,” Naval Institute Proceedings, April 2007
• “Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point,” Journal of Military History, June 2006

Contributor

• “Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation’s Most Catastrophic Events,” Facts on File Library of American History, 2008
• ABC-CLIO Encyclopedias on the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War