Dr. Colin Jay Williams

Contact

• Colin.Williams@dla.mil
   

Education

• PhD in Military History, University of Alabama
• MA in Military History, University of Alabama
• BS, United States Military Academy at West Point
   

Research Areas

• Contemporary Military Logistics
• Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National New York
   

DLA Publications

• Effectiveness and Efficiency: DLA’s 60-Year Quest to Perfect Supply Chain Management
• “Combating the Coronavirus, DLA Efforts to Defeat COVID-19, February 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020”
• Annual History, Fiscal Years 2019 – 2022

Non-DLA Publications

• “Persuasion Politics: How George Clinton Used Britain’s Evacuation from New York to Build a State and Unify a People,” New York History vol. 104, no. 2 (Winter 2023-2024): 363-82
• Contributing author, Modern War in an Ancient Land: The U.S. Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2014, U.S. Army Center of Military History, 59-1-1, May 2021
• “Unity in a Time of War: New York’s First Constitution” New York History vol. 99, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 38-67.
• “New York’s Committees in the American Revolution,” chapter in Key to the Northern Country: The Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution,” eds. James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, and Andrew Villani (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013).
• “Saved by Artillery: How MG Lucas Lost the Initiative at Anzio and the Allied Artillery Regained It,” Field Artillery Journal (July-August 2003).
   

Prior Experience

• Army officer
• Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy
• Historian, U.S. Army Center of Military History