Robert Tonsetic was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English Literature in 1964. Upon graduation, he entered the US Army as an infantry second lieutenant. After completing Special Forces training in 1966, he served a tour in Thailand with the 46th Special Forces Company. He was subsequently assigned to the 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam, serving as a rifle company commander during the Tet and May Offensives of 1968. In 1970, he returned to Vietnam as a senior advisor to South Vietnamese Ranger and Airborne battalions. His decorations for his wartime service include the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, and the Bronze Star for Valor. He retired from the Army at the rank of Colonel in 1991, after completing a three year assignment as a faculty member at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. Upon his return to the US, Robert earned a Doctorate in Education, and was employed at the University of Central Florida as a staff member and adjunct professor. He passed in April 2016 in Easton, MD.
…careful historical writing, very careful, and readers will be
informed far more often than they’ll be delighted …there’s a
reassuring solidity to battlefield analyses made by a historian
who’s seen actual battlefields. 1781 saw the effective end of
large-scale British warring in America, but the principal strength
of Tonsetic’s book is that he never takes the victory at Yorktown
for granted as so many Revolution writers do; he never writes
‘backward’ from the surrender of Cornwallis, nor should he:
Americans need periodic reminders that they could just as easily
have lost.
*Open Letters Monthly*
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