About
Brian Todd Carey is an Assistant Professor of History and Military History at the American Public University System. He was a history lecturer at Front Range Community College in Ft. Collins, Colorado (1995-2020).
His principal research interests are in ancient, classical, and medieval military history and the theory and practice of airpower. He is the author of over thirty popular history articles in numerous magazines and journals, including Aviation History, Command Magazine, History Magazine, Marine Corps Gazette, Medieval History Magazine, Medieval Warfare, Military Heritage, Military History, Strategy and Tactics, Strategy and Tactics Quarterly, World History Bulletin, World at War, World War II, and WWII Quarterly: The Journal of the Second World War. He also contributed seventeen peer-reviewed articles on ancient, classical, and medieval warfare to the twenty-one volume ABC-CLIO-World History Encyclopedia (2011).
In 2014 his peer-reviewed bibliographical essay on the battle of Manzikert was published in the University of Oxford's Oxford Bibliographies in Military History.
In 2005 and 2006, Carey's two-volume survey entitled Warfare in the Ancient World and Warfare in the Medieval World was published by Pen and Sword Books, followed by Hannibal’s Last Battle: Zama and the Fall of Carthage and Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 (Pen and Sword Military, 2007 and 2012). His latest effort is a two-volume treatment of the crusades entitled Warfare in the Age of Crusades: Latin East and Warfare in the Age of Crusades: Europe (Pen and Sword Military, 2022 and 2023). All six of these books are illustrated by two fine cartographers, Joshua B. Allfree who designed the tactical maps, and John Cairns who designed the regional maps.
Carey was the recipient of American Public University System’s 2007 "Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award" for the School of Arts and Humanities. In 2018 and 2019 respectively, he earned the "Top Challenger" and "Most Valuable Player" awards for APUS' Social Influencer Program, bringing relevant historical content to his 30,000-plus followers on social media.
