Donald A. Carter was born in Albany, New York, and grew up in Oneida,
New York. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1977
and served as a Field Artillery Officer until 1992. During that time, he received
a Ph.D. in history from the Ohio State University in 1985 and served as a
military history instructor, both at West Point and at the U.S. Army Field
Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. After leaving the Army he joined
the U.S. Army Center of Military History as an archivist. In 1995 he left
CMH to serve with the Gulf War Declassification Project and the U.S. Army
Declassification Activity. He returned to CMH in 2003 as a historian. His
publications include “Eisenhower Versus The Generals,” in Journal of Military
History (October 2007); “The U.S. Military Response to the 1960–1962 Berlin
Crisis,” for a National Archives pamphlet commemorating the release of Cold
War records; and “Wargames in Europe: The U.S. Army Experiments with
Atomic Doctrine,” in Blueprints for Battle (University Press of Kentucky, 2012).
He is married with two children and lives in Dale City, Virginia