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Douglas Vincent Mastriano (born January 2, 1964) is an American far-right[1][2][3][4] politician from Pennsylvania. He is a retired colonel of the United States Army and is the state senator representing the 33rd district. A Republican, he is the party's nominee for governor in the 2022 election.

Doug Mastriano
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the 33rd district
Incumbent
Assumed office June 10, 2019
Preceded by	Richard Alloway
Personal details
Born	Douglas Vincent Mastriano (1964-01-02) January 2, 1964 (age 58) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Rebecca "Rebbie" Stewart ​ ​ (m. 1987)​
Children	1
Education	Mercer County Community College Eastern University (BA) National Intelligence University (MS) Air University (MMAS, MA) United States Army War College (MS) University of New Brunswick (PhD)
Website	Campaign website Legislative profile
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1986–2017
Rank	Colonel

Mastriano previously ran for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district in 2018, but lost in the primary election. He later won the 2019 special election to replace retiring Pennsylvania State Senator Rich Alloway. He has been described by some sources as a Christian nationalist and a dominionist, and has made social media posts referencing QAnon.[5][6][1][7][8]

A close ally of former President Donald Trump, Mastriano received national attention for his efforts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.[9] Mastriano was present at the Washington D.C. rally on January 6, 2021, where a mob attacked the United States Capitol.[9] Mastriano did not enter the Capitol, but did pass through breached barriers set up by the Capitol Police.[9] On February 22, 2022, Mastriano was subpoenaed by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.

Early life and education

Early life

Mastriano was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on January 2, 1964, the son of Richard L. and Janice C. (Bono) Mastriano.[10][11] Raised in Hightstown, New Jersey, he graduated from Hightstown High School in 1982. He was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and obtained the rank of Eagle Scout.[12] He then attended Mercer County Community College, where he was a member of Psi Beta and Phi Theta Kappa.[13][14]

Mastriano himself has said that he did not grow up in a "strong Christian family". He was led to God as teenager by an "on-fire youth pastor" after being invited to a youth group called "The Way". [15]

In 1986, Mastriano received a bachelor's degree in history from Eastern College.[16] While at Eastern, he participated in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.[17]

Continued education

Mastriano received a master's degree in strategic intelligence from the Joint Intelligence College in 1992.[16] His education also includes a master's degree in airpower theory from the Air University in 2001.[16] In 2002, he received a master's degree in military operational art and science from the Air University's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.[16] He received a master's degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College in 2010.[16] In 2013, Mastriano completed a Ph.D. in history from the University of New Brunswick.[16]

Military career

After college, Mastriano was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army and assigned to the Military Intelligence Corps.[17][18] After initial training, he started his career in Nuremberg, Germany, with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in the area of the West German borders with East Germany and Czechoslovakia.[19] Mastriano also served four years at the NATO Land Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.[20] Mastriano was deployed to Iraq for Operation Desert Storm in 1991.[21] Mastriano then served in Washington, DC, in the 3rd Infantry Division and US Army Europe.[21] Mastriano was the lead planner for a planned invasion of Iraq via Turkey[21] that was blocked by Turkey's refusal to use its territory for that purpose, causing the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be carried out by a different approach. He served four years with NATO and deployed three times to Afghanistan.[21] Mastriano was the director of NATO's Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan.[21] Mastriano led seven relief operations to help Afghan orphans.[21] He ended his military career as a faculty instructor in the Department of Military Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during 2012–2017,[16] and retired in 2017 at the rank of colonel.[22][23]

2018 Congressional campaign

On February 13, 2018, at the Otterbein Church in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Mastriano announced his candidacy for U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district, a seat being vacated by the retiring congressman Bill Shuster.[22][23] Less than a week after his announcement, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania redrew the congressional district map of Pennsylvania after ruling the previous map unconstitutional (due to gerrymandering by the majority Republican Party), and the area previously covered by the 9th district corresponds most closely to the new 13th district, so Mastriano became a candidate for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district.[24] Mastriano ultimately finished fourth of the eight candidates in the primary election, receiving 10,509 votes.[25]

Pennsylvania State Senate

Electoral history

2019

On January 22, 2019, Mastriano announced that he intended to run for the State Senate seat being vacated by Rich Alloway in the 33rd District, saying he "can't, in good conscience, stand aside", wanting to "serve his country in a new way".[26] Mastriano won the Republican nomination for the May 21 election at a party conference held in Gettysburg on March 30, 2019.^{[citation needed]}

On Mastriano's campaign page, he states that "marriage is between a man and woman – and that no amount of disinformation or political correctness will change these facts."[27]

Val DiGiorgio, the chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, said "Doug Mastriano is the kind of conservative candidate that reflects the values of South Central Pennsylvania and will be a key asset in helping advance the Republican agenda in Harrisburg."[28]

On May 21, 2019, Mastriano defeated Democrat Sarah Hammond to win the special election in the 33rd District.[29] Mastriano was sworn into the Pennsylvania Senate on June 10.[30]

Campaign Facebook page controversy

Mastriano has been criticized by some religious leaders and the Pennsylvania Democratic leadership[31] for posts on his campaign's Facebook page, "Doug Mastriano Fighting for Freedom".[32]

In May 2019, during his campaign for state senate, Mastriano spread Islamophobic content via several shared posts on his campaign Facebook page targeting Muslims. "Islam wants to kill gay rights, Judaism, Christianity and pacifism" read one of the posts, which critiqued the common "Coexist" bumper stickers.[33][34] After the fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, Mastriano had shared an image that was circulated implying that it had been an act perpetrated by Muslim terrorists,[35] with a caption reading "something wicked comes this way".[34][36] He also made birtherist allusions regarding president Obama.[34] In April 2018, his campaign Facebook page shared an article headlined, "A Dangerous Trend: Muslims running for office".[37]

While various Democratic critics have condemned his Facebook posts, neither Mastriano, the county, nor the state Republican party responded publicly to questions raised about the issues.[38][39]

2020

On November 3, 2020, Mastriano was re-elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 33rd District by 68.7 percent of the vote. His Democratic opponent Rich Sterner had 31.3 percent.[40]

Tenure

Cannabis prohibition

Mastriano opposed efforts by Governor Tom Wolf to legalize recreational cannabis. He has stated that cannabis "causes an increase in violence, mental illness and driving under the influence" and that ending the prohibition is "madness and stupid".[41]

COVID-19 policies

On March 17, 2020, Mastriano called for suspension of the HIPAA law to allow the Department of Health share more COVID-19 data, including publishing the names and addresses of those infected with the virus.[42]

On March 28, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mastriano proposed legislation that would allow Pennsylvania businesses to reopen if they followed CDC mitigation guidelines, subject to health department and law enforcement inspections.[43][44]

Mastriano spoke during an anti-lockdown protest held on April 20, 2020, in support of reopening Pennsylvania during the state's ongoing pandemic.[45]

On May 11, 2020, Mastriano called for the resignation of Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, saying she was "being complicit in the virus spreading through our elder care homes, triggered by unscientific and illogical directives, forcing them to readmit COVID-19 patients", and that she was "responsible for the deaths of approximately 2,500 of our citizens, and display[ing] the gross incompetence of someone unfit for office".[46]

In May 2020 Mastriano wrote a letter signed by other Republican state legislators and a county commissioner calling for his home county of Franklin County to move out of the "red" phase of Governor Tom Wolf's reopening plan. At the time Franklin County's seat Chambersburg had one of the highest average daily growth rates of COVID-19 cases in the country. Mastriano's initiative was opposed by the mayor of Chambersburg and two county commissioners.[47]

In response to a Pennsylvania mask-wearing order, Mastriano called for a mask-burning party at a rally in Gettysburg on July 22, 2020.[48] At the rally, Mastriano urged people to reject store employees telling them to wear a mask and "tell them to mind your own business and say you're exempt."[49]

MS4 opposition

Mastriano was a vocal opponent of the implementation of municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4) programs as applied by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.[50]

In an op-ed, Mastriano wrote, in part,

"A week rarely passes without me hearing from multiple residents who have been severely impacted by Harrisburg's latest revenue scheme. Since 2017, DEP has combined water quality standard requirements with MS4 and expanded beyond the original scope of the law. It now taxes impervious surfaces (which are not included in the Clean Water Act) and it applies MS4 requirements to any stormwater source, whether or not it discharges into navigable waterways.

"This oppressive government overreach has resulted in a program that is crushing our municipalities. MS4 was never intended to force small towns to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on what is essentially a new public utility that gobbles up taxpayer money whether or not it rains!"[50]

On September 11, 2019, the Pennsylvania State Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing at the Antrim Brethren in Christ Church near Greencastle.[51] Mastriano participated in the hearing, criticizing the financial burden the Pennsylvania DEP puts on local communities.[52]

Efforts to overturn 2020 presidential election results

On November 5, 2020, Mastriano alleged various irregularities in the voting process for the U.S. presidential election and called for the resignation of the Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar. He sent a lengthy letter to Boockvar saying that "Nothing is more crucial to Americans than confidence that our voices will be heard through voting," and "Pennsylvanians no longer feel secure in casting their vote."[53] On November 6, Mastriano and two other state senators, Michele Brooks and Scott Hutchinson, issued a joint memo calling for a full recount "in any counties where state law was broken, regardless of the Department of State's instructions, as well as in any precinct where questionable actions were demonstrated."[54]

At Mastriano's request,[55][56] a public meeting of the Republican Party's Majority Policy Committee of the Pennsylvania Senate[57] was held on November 25, 2020, at the Wyndham hotel near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, about claims of election fraud.[58] The meeting, which lasted more than four hours, was organized by Mastriano (although Mastriano was not a member of the Policy Committee)[59] and was chaired by Pennsylvania State Senator Dave Argall.[57][60] President Donald Trump's legal team, including Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, gave a lengthy presentation in the meeting, and Trump himself participated by phone.[60] Trump made claims at the meeting alleging unfairness in the election process and saying he should be declared the winner. "This election was rigged, and we can't let that happen. This election has to be turned around because we won Pennsylvania by a lot and we won all these swing states by a lot," he said.[61] Immediately after the meeting, Trump invited some of the Pennsylvania lawmakers, including Mastriano, to meet with him in the West Wing of the White House on the same day.[61] The Republican leadership in the Pennsylvania legislature did not attend Trump's White House meeting and all those who did participate initially refused to discuss what happened at the meeting.[61]

On November 27, Mastriano and three other state senators announced that they would introduce a resolution to permit the state legislature to appoint delegates to the Electoral College instead of following the results of the presidential vote in the state. The proposed resolution, as circulated in a memorandum seeking additional co-sponsorships, alleges that "officials in the Executive and Judicial Branches of the Commonwealth infringed upon the General Assembly's authority by unlawfully changing the rules governing the November 3, 2020 election in the Commonwealth", and declares, "based on the facts and evidence presented and our own Board of Elections data, that the Presidential election held on November 3, 2020, in Pennsylvania is irredeemably corrupted".[62][63]

In the wake of the recent events, the editorial board of the Gannett-owned York Dispatch, a local newspaper of York County, Pennsylvania, wrote an opinion article on December 2 that strongly criticized Mastriano's actions relating to the election.[64] The editorial described him as someone who "regularly spouts his love of freedom" but has a relationship to Trump that had been "exposed as nothing more than a vassal doing his master's bidding", and said his actions were that of a "craven oligarch" making a "shocking call for tyranny" in a "campaign to undercut democracy itself for a generation".[64]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on December 5, 2020, that Mastriano's involvement with Trump in disputing the election results had raised his profile, and that he might become a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in the 2022 election.[65] The Beaver County Times echoed this view on December 9, saying Mastriano had "shot to the top of the list for the GOP", and quoting local Democratic strategist Mike Mikus as saying Mastriano seemed to be "aggressively angling" to position himself as a potential candidate.[66]

Mastriano published an op-ed article in the York Daily Record on December 11, accusing Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, Secretary Boockvar, and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to abuse and contravene Pennsylvania Act 77, an act passed on October 29, 2019, that modified the election laws in Pennsylvania. He said they "have been making up rules on the fly and unconstitutionally rewrote the law, which compromised our election".[67] Mastriano said he had joined two lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results (Texas v. Pennsylvania, which the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed on the same day for lack of standing, and Kelly v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania U.S. Representative Mike Kelly, which the U.S. Supreme Court had rejected three days prior to Mastriano's article).[67]

Positive COVID-19 test

It was then reported on November 29 that Mastriano, who had participated in the meeting with Trump, had left the meeting abruptly upon learning that he had tested positive for COVID-19 infection.[60] In addition to Mastriano himself, Mastriano's son and a friend of his son, who also attended the White House meeting, tested positive as well.[60] All participants of the meeting had been administered a rapid test for the virus as part of the White House health protocol, but the results of the test were not provided to them until they were already in the meeting in the West Wing.[60] It was also reported that Mastriano had not worn a mask during the Gettysburg public meeting that day, which had lasted more than four hours, and all but a few of the other participants had also not been wearing masks at the meeting.[60][68] Some of the participants had ridden in a large van from the Gettysburg meeting to the White House meeting, while Mastriano, his son and his son's friend had driven together in a separate car.[60] Another Pennsylvania state senator, Judy Ward, who sat next to Mastriano during the public meeting he had organized, tested positive for COVID-19 within five days after the meeting.[59][69][70] After acknowledging that he had tested positive for the virus on his Facebook page on November 30, Mastriano said that his case was "pretty mild",[71] and he appeared that day on The Eric Metaxas Show, with Donald Trump on the phone, supporting Trump's[68][72] claim that he had won the election.[73] When asked about his infection by conservative radio commentator Glenn Beck the next day, Mastriano replied, "I'm feeling fantastic."[71]

Interim Pennsylvania Senate President Jake Corman said that "mistakes were made" in the conduct of the Pennsylvania public meeting, as the organizers of the meeting had allowed a large crowd to attend without following guidelines for social distancing and mask-wearing.[59] The meeting participants were also not screened for symptoms of infection.[59] Corman said "There is no penalty, but you have to review what happened, acknowledge that there were mistakes, and make sure there are policies in place so that it doesn't happen again."[59] Pennsylvania political leaders had been warned by federal officials a few days before the meeting that the state had entered the "red zone" for its percentage of positive virus test results, indicating uncontrolled spreading of COVID-19 in the community, and they had been previously warned that the state was also in the "red zone" for the number of confirmed cases per capita in the state population.[56]

After participating in the event organized by Mastriano and several other events elsewhere disputing the validity of the election without wearing a mask, Giuliani tested positive for COVID-19 infection 10 or 11 days after the Pennsylvania meeting.[74]

Role in 2021 storming of the United States Capitol

Mastriano helped organize bus rides for Trump supporters to the protest which preceded the 2021 United States Capitol attack in Washington, D.C.[75] During the protest, Mastriano said he and his wife left the rally area when it turned violent, which he called "unacceptable". Democratic colleagues called for his resignation, saying senators must be held to a higher standard than others.[76] On the morning of January 13, Mastriano wrote on Twitter and Facebook, "Please do not participate in rallies or protests over the next ten days," and "Let's focus on praying for our nation during these troubling times."[77]

In May 2021, crowdsourced video analysis identified Mastriano and his wife watching as another rioter tore a police barricade away and then passing through a breached Capitol Police barricade, contradicting his previous claims that he had not been among the rioters. Mastriano said he was following police directions and dismissed the accusations as the work of "angry partisans" who were "foot soldiers of the ruling elite".[78][79] This claim is not supported by the video evidence.[80] Mastriano said he was in the "second row, watching the Trump rally," hoping Congress would legally stop the election's certification. "Once I realized all the speaking events were off we left and that's a darn shame... I was there to cheer on Congress, the House and the Senate, not to disrupt it," Mastriano said.[79] No negative consequences were expected as a result of the released videos, according to multiple university political science leaders.[81]

Continuing efforts to contest 2020 presidential election results

In June 2021, after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, and without invitation, Mastriano traveled to Arizona along with fellow state senator Cris Dush and state house member Rob Kauffman[82] to observe the 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit, which the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors called a "spectacle".[83] The audit was ordered by the state's Republican senate majority, the rationale for which was generated by widely discredited conspiracy theories.[84][85] Mastriano expressed the desire that the 2020 Pennsylvania ballots be subjected to a process similar to that employed in Maricopa County, Arizona,[82] even though Pennsylvania had already recounted the votes twice and twice confirmed Joe Biden's win and Donald Trump's loss.

The United States Department of Justice warned the audit participants that they may have broken the law in compromising the integrity of those Arizona ballots.[86][87] One firm involved had previously audited the 2020 election in Pennsylvania.[88] Wake TSI, the business contracted to do the audit in Fulton County, Pennsylvania by a nonprofit group directed by discredited Trump attorney and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell,[89] found no evidence of fraud. Further, Wake reported the Fulton County's count was "well run" and "conducted in a diligent and effective manner," but its conclusions were subsequently altered before being finalized by the county.[90]

On February 15, 2022, Mastriano was subpoenaed by the Congressional committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, reportedly to inquire about his role in trying to empanel a slate of alternative electors in Pennsylvania, in an effort to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.[91]

2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign

Mastriano had long been rumored to be considering a bid for Governor of Pennsylvania, particularly following his high profile role in trying to change the results of the 2020 Presidential election. In October 2021, Mastriano said he was considering a run for Governor, but was putting out a fleece, and waiting for a sign from God before he could officially announce.[92] He has said that God and former President Donald Trump wanted him to run for governor.[15][93] On January 8, 2022, Mastriano announced his candidacy as a Republican candidate for Governor.[94] Mastriano emerged as an early frontrunner in the race, alongside former Congressman Lou Barletta.[95]

At a rally on May 7, 2022, Mastriano suggested that his gubernatorial administration would be so conservative that it would make Florida Governor Ron DeSantis look like an "[a]mateur".[96] His platform for governor includes expanded gun rights, lowering taxes, and support for charter schools.[15] He supports outlawing abortion, with no exceptions, including the life of the mother, and has referred to the practice as a "barbaric holocaust."[15][96][97] Mastriano has said that if he is elected, within his first 100 days, he will "immediately end all contracts with compromised voting machine companies" and support legislation to restrict voting.[15] He would also repeal Pennsylvania's no-excuse mail voting law, which he previously voted for.[8][96] As governor Mastriano would have the power to appoint Pennsylvania's secretary of state, who oversees elections in the state and said that his secretary would "reset" voter rolls so everyone would have to re-register.[96] At a 2022 campaign event, Mastriano suggested that he may only certify Pennsylvania's election results, if the Republican candidate for President wins.[98]

While campaigning, Mastriano often uses religious rhetoric. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Mastriano often invokes Esther, the biblical Jewish queen who saved her people from slaughter by Persians, casting himself and his followers as God's chosen people who have arrived at a crossroads — and who must now defend their country, their very lives."[15]

In April, Mastriano spoke at and raised money for his campaign at a far-right Christian conference called "Patriots Arise for God and Country" in Gettysburg.[99][100] The conference promoted conspiracy theories including that there is a global cabal of Democrats sex trafficking children, 9/11 was a false flag attack, vaccines amount to genocide therapy and Adolf Hitler faked his death.[99] Jewish organizations criticized Mastriano following the rally due to the improper use of Jewish symbols as "campaign props" to open the event.[15]

Mastriano's campaign has largely avoided talking to media outlets and journalists.[93] Reporters from several outlets have been refused entry to his rallies including reporters from The Philadelphia Inquirer,[15] NBC News,[96] and CNN.[101] A Philadelphia Inquirer reporter said that there were printed out photographs of him and other journalists at the check-in desk at a Mastriano rally in Lancaster County.[15] Mastriano's campaign attempted to have two CNN journalists removed from a hotel where they had video equipment set up on a balcony overlooking the rally in Uniontown. The journalists had previously been prevented from being admitted to the rally and were allowed by the hotel to stay.[101]

In the closing days of the primary election, Mastriano led in most polls, much to the dismay of the Pennsylvania Republican establishment, who believed Mastriano would lose the general election to the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Josh Shapiro.[95] A number of candidates including President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, Jake Corman and former Congresswoman Melissa Hart dropped out, and endorsed Barletta, in a bid to stop Mastriano.[95] Three days before the election Trump endorsed Mastriano.[102] Mastriano won the Republican primary election with 44% of the vote.[103]

Published works as author

Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne

Mastriano's first book, Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne (ISBN 978-0813145198), was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2014.[104] Mastriano conducted twelve years of research for the book.[105] In all, Mastriano reportedly spent 2,000 hours doing research on Sergeant Alvin York, including 1,000 hours studying archives in the United States and various parts of Germany including Stuttgart, Freiburg, Potsdam, Rottweil, and Ulm,[106] and another 1,000 hours of field research in the Argonne Forest of France to locate where York fought during the Meuse–Argonne offensive of World War I. His team uncovered thousands of artifacts that Mastriano believed were related to York's battle of October 8, 1918. Along with research, the book incorporates forensic study and military terrain analysis.[104]

Other researchers have questioned the accuracy of the book, including James Gregory, a doctoral student at the University of Oklahoma, who has identified 30 citations in the work that he asserts are fraudulent (i.e., not supporting the claims they are cited to support or having obviously doubtful reliability), and a photo on the dust jacket that is labeled by the Army as having been taken twelve days before York's Medal of Honor action but is presented as depicting the action's aftermath.[107]

Mastriano's book on York received the 2015 William E. Colby Award of the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium at Norwich University (an award for a first published work of a military topic author),[19] the Army Historical Foundation Award, the US Army War College Madigan Award and the 2015 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values.[108][109]

The University Press of Kentucky, which published the book, asked Mastriano in September to respond before November 2021 to about 30 items of concern; his response or the publisher's own recommendations are then to be reviewed by the publisher and a peer reviewer for inclusion in a new printing in 2022.[110]

Questioning of Mastriano's identification of Alvin York's battle site

Several archeologists and historians have raised questions about Mastriano's findings regarding the location of Alvin York's Medal of Honor actions.[111] In an introduction to Michael Kelly's Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Alvin York's Battlefield, the late Ed Bearss, former chief historian for the National Park Service, says that Kelly "identifies serious problems with [Mastriano's York Group] that compromise the validity of their claims that they had located the York sites."[112]

Brad Posey, who had initially been a member of Mastriano's team, described Mastriano's team as "A U.S. Army or Air Force officer using a very cheap-looking metal detector with no experience in metal detecting" with a "Danish Army officer [and] friend of Mastriano" and a "U.S. Civil Service employee using a very cheap-looking metal detector".[112] Posey would later leave Mastriano's team after becoming convinced that Mastriano was incorrect; Posey instead joined the competing Nolan group.[112]

Lt. Col. Taylor V. Beattie, an Alvin York researcher,[113] was critical of Mastriano's lack of annotation during his research, stating "This is actually one of the things I warned Mastriano about. Somebody should be able to retrace what he did."[112] Beattie would later criticize Mastriano's team for using a bulldozer to make room for a monument, rendering any further archaeological investigation impossible, stating "Wait a minute, there's another side to it. He just bulldozed through."[112]

Other works

Other works by Mastriano include:[114]

• Thunder in the Argonne: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (ISBN 978-0813175553 )
• Project 1704: U.S. Army War College Analysis of Russian Strategy in Eastern Europe, Appropriate U.S. Response, and Implications for U.S. Landpower – Putin's Rise to Power, Military, Ukraine Crisis, as project leader for a U.S. Army War College project, 2017[115]
• Project 1721: A U.S. Army War College Assessment on Russian Strategy in Eastern Europe and Recommendations on How to Leverage Landpower to Maintain the Peace, as project leader for a U.S. Army War College project, 2017[116]
• Project 1704: A U.S. Army War College Analysis of Russian Strategy in Eastern Europe, an Appropriate U.S. Response, and the Implications for U.S. Landpower, as project leader for a U.S. Army War College project, 2015[117]
• Nebuchadnezzar's Sphinx: What Have We Learned from Baghdad's Plan to Take Kuwait?, a thesis for the School of Advanced Air Power Studies, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, June 2002[118]
• The Civilian Putsch of 2018: Debunking The Myth of a Civil-Military Leadership Rift, a research report for the School of Advanced Air Power Studies, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, April 2001[119]

Personal life

Mastriano and his wife, Rebecca, have one child.[120] He worships at a Mennonite church.[15]

References

External links

• Media related to Douglas V. Mastriano at Wikimedia Commons
• Gubernatorial campaign website
• Senatorial campaign website
• Legislative profile
• The Controversy Surrounding Sergeant York: Uncovering the WWI Iconic Hero's Background, posted by the University Press of Kentucky to the WordPress.com blog site, June 11, 2014
• Mastriano, Doug (August 2010). "Leadership Q&A". Officers' Christian Fellowship. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• WWI Scholar Brad Posey details flaws in Mastriano's York Location findings on C-SPAN Interview

Party political offices
Preceded by Scott Wagner	Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania 2022	Most recent

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