Doug Mastriano is a combat veteran and the son of a career US Navy man. He is an Eagle Scout and worked as a paperboy, janitor, security guard, short-order cook, pizza delivery person and dishwasher. Doug was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1986 and served on the Iron Curtain with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in West Germany. While serving along the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, he witnessed the end of the Cold War and thereafter deployed to Iraq for Operation Desert Storm (1991) to liberate Kuwait. His regiment led the attack against Saddam’s elite Republican Guard forces. Doug went on to serve in Washington, DC, the 3rd Infantry Division and US Army Europe. After 9/11, Mastriano was the lead planner for the operation to invade Iraq via Turkey. He served four years with NATO and deployed three times to Afghanistan. Mastriano was the director of NATO’s Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan, leading 80 people from 18 nations. On his own initiative, Doug led seven relief operations to help Afghan orphans. He completed his career as a Professor of the U.S. Army War College (PAWC), Carlisle, PA, and taught Strategic Studies at the Master Degree level to the next generation of senior leaders.
Mastriano is a Doctor of History (PhD) and has four master’s degrees: Strategy, Strategic Intelligence, Military Operations, and Airpower. He earned a BA from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania and was the alumnus of the year in 2009. He led the search to locate where America’s greatest WW I hero, Alvin York, received the Medal of Honor and led the construction of a three mile trail, with two monuments and nine markers in the Argonne Forest of France. He published 30 articles on strategy and historic topics and authored the book Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne which received four awards. His new book, Thunder in the Argonne is the first to tell the complete story of America’s largest battle, the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Campaign. Doug’s next book, Pershing’s Lieutenants, will be published in 2020 and is an edited work that focuses on the leadership style of American officers in the First World War.
Mastriano has appeared on C-Span, numerous national radio programs (John Batchelor Show, Eric Metaxas Show) and on Fox Business with Stuart Varney. He retired from the U.S. Army in November 2017 after 30 years of active duty as a Colonel. In 2018, he was a candidate for Pennsylvania’s 13th U.S. Congressional District, where he overwhelmingly won Franklin and Fulton Counties and placed 3rd (of 8 candidates) in Adams and Cumberland Counties. Mastriano is a featured actor in the upcoming movie Operation Resist (2019), playing American World War Two military hero Colonel Peter Ortiz.
Doug is married to Rebecca (Stewart), whose ancestors settled this region of Pennsylvania in 1732. Rebecca is a chaplain with Marketplace Ministries at Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe. Their son Josiah is an Eagle Scout, Canadian Chief Scout and recipient of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards. Mastriano is an active member of his church and resides near Caledonia State Park, Pennsylvania.
Mastriano was elected to serve as the Senator for Pennsylvania’s 33rd District in May 2019, which includes all of Adams County, most of Franklin County and parts of Cumberland and York Counties. Mastriano has thirty years of experience building teams to get the job done. He has dedicated his life to fighting for freedom, defending our families and serving the people of this great land.
Academic Background
1986 Bachelor of Arts, History, Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania
1992 Masters Strategic Intelligence, Joint Intelligence College, Washington, DC
2001 Masters Airpower Theory, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL
2002 Masters Military Operational Art and Science, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL
2010 Masters Strategic Studies, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
2013 Ph.D. University of New Brunswick, Canada (Doctor of History)
Key Military Assignments
1986 Commissioned as an officer in the United States Army
1988-1990 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (2ACR) on the Iron Curtain
1990-1991 2ACR for Operations Desert Shield/Storm in Iraq
1992-1995 Assignments in Washington, DC
1995-1998 229th Military Intelligence Battalion
1998-2000 3rd Infantry Division (Rock of the Marne)
2002-2005 US Army Europe
2005-2009 NATO (Deployments to Afghanistan 2006, 2007, 2008)
2009-2010 U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
2012-2017 Professor Army War College (PAWC), Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Retired as Colonel in the United States Army
Published Books:
Douglas Mastriano, Thunder in the Argonne: A New History of America’s Greatest Battle, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2018).
Douglas Mastriano, Alvin York, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
https://senatormastriano.com/biography/