Bruce I. Gudmundsson is an historian who studies military innovation (the way that military organizations deal with radical change in their operational environments) and is particularly interested in methods of military education, doctrine, and organizational culture. He has written five books on this subject, and is the co-author of the fourth. In addition to this, he has published a large number of short books, doctrinal manuals, case studies, concept papers, magazine articles, translations, tactical decision games, and instructional cases.
Dr. Gudmundsson has a long association with the Armed Forces of the United States and, in particular, the United States Marine Corps. Between 1977 and 1997, he served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, rising in rank from private to major, and serving as a truck driver, logistician, and infantry officer. In 1989, he was recalled to active duty to design the curriculum for the School of Advanced Warfighting, a year-long course for selected graduates of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.
A longtime advocate of the case method of instruction, Dr. Gudmundsson spent three years as a case writer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Since 2007, he has served as the Senior Fellow for the Case Method at the Marine Corps University, where he conducts demonstrations of the case method, teaches courses that employ the case method, writes (and supervises the writing of) case materials, and assists instructors throughout the Marine Corps to incorporate decision-forcing cases into their classes.
A graduate of Yale College (BA) and Oxford University (D.Phil), Dr. Gudmundsson has taught at the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting, Oxford University, the Royal Military Acadmey at Sandhurst, the US Army War College, and Dickinson College.