Background
Robert Citino was born on June 19, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the son of John D. Citino, a purchasing agent, and Mildred R. Citino (Bunasky), a secretary.
1911 W 30th St, Cleveland, OH 44113, United States
Robert Citino studied at Saint Ignatius High School.
Columbus, OH 43210, United States
Robert Citino graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Ohio State University in 1978.
Award-winning author Robert Citino speaks at the 19th annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture.
Columbus, OH 43210, United States
Robert Citino graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Ohio State University in 1978.
1911 W 30th St, Cleveland, OH 44113, United States
Robert Citino studied at Saint Ignatius High School.
Robert Citino and his wife Roberta J. Peters.
Robert Citino and his wife Roberta J. Peters.
(This study provides a tactical, strategic, and operationa...)
This study provides a tactical, strategic, and operational view of the interwar German army as a fighting organization.
https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Blitzkrieg-Tactics-1918-1933-Contributions/dp/0313256314/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(This is the first study to examine Nazi German foreign po...)
This is the first study to examine Nazi German foreign policy towards the Union of South Africa from 1933-1939.
https://www.amazon.com/Germany-Union-South-Africa-Period/dp/0313277893/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(This volume analyzes the development of tanks and traces ...)
This volume analyzes the development of tanks and traces their history from the British attack at Cambrai in 1917 during World War I through the AirLand Battle of Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
https://www.amazon.com/Armored-Forces-Sourcebook-Histories-Sourcebooks/dp/0313285004/?tag=2022091-20
1994
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Blitzkrieg-Doctrine-Training-1920-1939/dp/1555877141/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Robert Citino tells how European military leaders analyze...)
Robert Citino tells how European military leaders analyzed and eventually overcame this problem by restoring pursuit to its rightful place in combat and resurrecting the possibility of decisive warfare on the operational level.
https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Decisive-Victory-Stalemate-Blitzkrieg/dp/0700611762/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Robert Citino analyzes military campaigns from the second...)
Robert Citino analyzes military campaigns from the second half of the twentieth century to further demonstrate the difficulty of achieving decisive results at the operational level.
https://www.amazon.com/Blitzkrieg-Desert-Storm-Evolution-Operational/dp/0700613005/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Robert Citino takes us on a dramatic march through Prussi...)
Robert Citino takes us on a dramatic march through Prussian and German military history to show how that primal theme played out time and time again.
https://www.amazon.com/German-Way-War-Thirty-Studies/dp/0700616241/?tag=2022091-20
2005
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Wehrmacht-German-Campaigns-Studies/dp/0700617914/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chron...)
In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal.
https://www.amazon.com/Wehrmacht-Retreats-Fighting-Modern-Studies/dp/0700623434/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a compre...)
In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century.
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Reality-German-Warfare-Operational/dp/0813168376/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt,...)
The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or “death ride,” from January 1944—with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine—until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin.
https://www.amazon.com/Wehrmachts-Last-Stand-Campaigns-1944-1945/dp/0700624945/?tag=2022091-20
2017
https://www.amazon.com/World-Magazine-November-December-2014/dp/B01GY85ROA/?tag=2022091-20
2014
Robert Citino was born on June 19, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the son of John D. Citino, a purchasing agent, and Mildred R. Citino (Bunasky), a secretary.
Robert Citino studied at Saint Ignatius High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Ohio State University in 1978. Robert also earned his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana University in 1980 and 1984.
From 1984 to 1991 Robert Citino taught as a professor at Liberal Arts Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, and from 1991 to 2008 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 2008 and 2009 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as an Associate Professor at the History Department of the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
From 2013 to 2014 and from 2014 to 2015, Robert was a holder of the Harold Keith Johnson's Chair of Military History Scholar-in-Residence at the Department of National Security and Strategy of the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Since 2013 he had been a Professor of History at the History Department of the UNT. His current research interests are German and US military history as well as recent European history. In 2019 Robert was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of History at Arizona State University and University of New Orleans.
Citino held several lectures about the Perspectives in the Military History at the USAWC in 2010 and 2014. In 2013, he was a Contemporary History Institute Speaker at Ohio University in Athens.
Robert is co-editor of the book series War, Weapons, and Technology. In addition, he was a reviewer for science publishers, from 2004 to 2006 - a book review editor of World War II Magazine and since 2009 - a columnist of the weblog Front and Center.
Occasionally he appears as a consultant to the History Channel. He gave interviews to newspapers and magazines such as Variety, The Washington Post and The Atlantic Monthly.
Citino is the author of several monographs, some of which have been awarded book prizes. He also contributed to anthologies and various journals, his articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as American Historical Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, Historically Speaking, The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin, and Revue d'Allemagne. He is considered one of the leading contemporary representatives of the operational history of World War II.
(The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt,...)
2017(Robert Citino tells how European military leaders analyze...)
2002(This volume analyzes the development of tanks and traces ...)
1994(Robert Citino analyzes military campaigns from the second...)
2004(In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chron...)
2012(Robert Citino takes us on a dramatic march through Prussi...)
2005(This study provides a tactical, strategic, and operationa...)
1987(This is the first study to examine Nazi German foreign po...)
1991(In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a compre...)
2016Citino has argued for changing the nomenclature of German military tactics. Though he uses the word Blitzkrieg in his books, he has always held to an opinion that it should be called by its proper German military term, Bewegungskrieg, or manoeuvre warfare.
Quotations: “I find that writing makes me a better classroom teacher, and that teaching makes me a more effective writer. Writing and teaching are not mutually antagonistic activities.”
Robert Citino is a member of the American Historical Association and the Historical Society as well as the Awards Committee Member of the Society for Military History, which he led until 2014 as Vice President.
Since 2009 he has been a member of the Graduate and the Tenure and Promotion Committee; he supervised several doctoral candidates.
Robert Citino married Roberta J. Peters, a homemaker, on August 24, 1979. Their marriage produced three children - Allison, Laura and Emily.
