Bevin Alexander is a military historian and author. He served as an officer during the Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

 as part of the 5th Historical Detachment. His book Korea: The First War We Lost was largely influenced by his experiences during the war. Bevin has served as a consultant and adviser to several groups due to his military expertise, including work for the Rand Corporation, work as a consultant for military simulation

Military simulation

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s instituted by the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

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, and as director of information at the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

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 in Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

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. As of 2007, he is an adjunct professor at Longwood University

Longwood University

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, in Farmville, Virginia

Farmville, Virginia

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Awards and honors

Bevin's Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson was honored by the Civil War Book Review, an academic publication of the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

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, when it was named one of the seventeen books that have most reshaped Civil War scholarship.

Works

• Korea: The First War We Lost (1987)
• The Strange Connection: U.S. Intervention in China, 1944-1972 (Contributions to the Study of World History) (1992)
• How Great Generals Win (1993)
• The Future of Warfare (1995)
• Robert E. Lee's Civil War (1999)
• How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat (2001)
• How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror (2003)
• Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson (2004)
• How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy (2006)
• How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat (2007)