Clayton R. Newell

Background

Clayton Newell was born on the 4th of April, 1942 in Tucson, Arizona, United States; the son of Wendell R. and Esther K. Newell.

Education

Clayton Newell attended Arizona State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965. He earned a graduate certificate from Old Dominion University in 1974. In 1980 he attended U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and U.S. Army War College in 1986.

Career

At the beginning of his career, Clayton Newell joined the U.S. Army as a career officer where he served from 1965 to 1992, including infantry and field artillery assignments in Vietnam and Germany. He also was John J. Pershing Chair of Military Planning and Operations and director of joint operations concepts at Army War College, as well as chief of historical services at U.S. Army Center of Military History. He retired as a lieutenant colonel.

Clayton Newell is an independent military consultant and writer from 1992. Since then he has written several works the most recent of which is “Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War” in 2011, “The Regular Army Before the Civil War 1845 - 1860” in 2014, “Burma, 1942” and “Campaigns of World War II: Egypt-Libya - War College Series” in 2015.

Clayton Newell has been a contributor to encyclopedias, books, and periodicals.

Achievements

• Clayton Newell is particularly known as the author of a great number of books on the U.S. Army, as well as a contributor to several other books, periodicals, and encyclopedias.

Works

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  • Campaigns of World War II: Egypt-Libya

    (This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the mos...)

    2015
  • The A to Z of the Persian Gulf War 1990 - 1991

    (Contrary to many assessments that immediately followed th...)

    2007
  • Lee vs. McClellan: The First Campaign

    (An examination of an important campaign between these two...)

    1996
  • The Regular Army Before the Civil War 1845-1860

    (The fifteen years that preceded the outbreak of the Ameri...)

    2014
  • Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War

    (In this first comprehensive study of the Regular Army in ...)

    2011
  • The United States Army: A Historical Dictionary

    (The volume profiles the leaders and the accomplishments o...)

    2002
  • Burma, 1942 2015
  • On Operational Art 1994
  • The Framework of Operational Warfare 1991
  • General Thoughts: Seventy Years with the Army, Writings of General Frederick J. Kroesen 2003
  • Central Pacific 1992

Membership

Clayton Newell has been a member of the Institute for Land Warfare (research fellow), Army Historical Foundation (past member of the board of directors).

Connections

Clayton Newell is married to Gwendolyn J. They have four children, Chris, Karen, Craig, Jesse.

Father:

Wendell R. Newel

Mother:

Esther K. Newell

child:

Chris Newel

child:

Karen Newel

child:

Craig Newel

child:

Jesse Newel

Wife:

Gwendolyn J. Newell