Dr. Blits is professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is the author of 13 books on political history, political philosophy, and literature, has served as the Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy, has lectured at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, and has won the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award and the University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award.