Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy

Robert L. O’Connell is Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency’s Foreign Science and Technology Center. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. Dr. O’Connells first book was Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression. He is a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, for which he has written numerous articles and essays.