Lewis Stone "Bob" Sorley III (August 3, 1934 – September 25, 2024) was an American intelligence analyst and military historian.
From February through October he was assigned to Company H, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Meade, Maryland as a reconnaissance platoon leader.
[4] In 1975 he became the senior military assistant to the director of net assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he served for two years.
In 1979 he was appointed chief of audit support and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in national security policy from Johns Hopkins University.
[5] While some military officers were sympathetic to his argument, fellow historians mostly dismissed the notion that the United States was ever in a position to win.
[5] His 2004 book Vietnam Chronicles: the Abrams Tapes won the Army Historical Foundation's Trefry Award for providing "a unique perspective on the art of command".
[5][6] He lived in Potomac, Maryland, for many years, but in 2019 moved to a retirement home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he died on September 25, 2024, at the age of 90.