He was President of the Naval War College from October 1977 until he retired from the Navy in 1979. As Vice Admiral, Stockdale became the President for The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Stockdale held this position from 1979 to 1980.
Taiwan and the Sino-Soviet Dispute, Stanford, California, 1962.
The Ethics of Citizenship, University of Texas at Dallas, 1981, Andrew R. Cecil lectures on moral values in a free society featured Stockdale and other speakers.
James Bond Stockdale Speaks on the "Melting Experience: Grow or Die", Hoover Institution, Stanford, 1981 speech to the graduating class of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection, Hoover Institution, Stanford, 1984, ISBN0-8179-8151-9.
In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years
↑Stockdale's given names--"James Bond"--are unrelated to James Bond, the hero of Ian Fleming's spy novels. Fleming had never heard of Stockdale when he coined the name long after the latter's birth ("Navy Hero: James Bond in His Own Right". The Pittsburgh Press. August 16, 1977. p. 9. Retrieved March 14, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.).