Dr. Thomas Alexander Hughes (BA, Saint John’s University; MA, PhD, University of Houston) is an associate professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He formerly served as associate professor and deputy chair in the Department of Strategy and International Security, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, and held the Ramsey Chair in Naval History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Hughes contributes regularly to air power and strategic journals and is an expert on the role of air power in the Normandy Invasion during World War II. He is the author of Overlord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II.