The Impact of the Organisational Mind-set on the Perception of the Future in the Armed Forces

Dr Bence Nemeth, DR Nicholas Dew, Dr Mie Augier Armed forces have always been attempting to foresee threats and security challenges to figure out what kind of tasks they will likely encounter in the future. Thus, anticipating the future and having an idea about what might come helps to provide assumptions and starting points for… Read More The Impact of the Organisational Mind-set on the Perception of the Future in the Armed Forces

July 23, 2018July 12, 2018 benkienzleLeave a comment

Summer Reading #4

WHITNEY GRESPIN This fall I’ll be adjunct instructing a course on “Defense Contracting in Practice” at George Washington University’s Elliott School. Inspired by my participation last year in Bridging the Gap’s International Policy Summer Institute, I pitched a course that directly ties my scholarship in to practitioner and policy interests. In preparation for this, I… Read More Summer Reading #4

July 16, 2018July 3, 2018 benkienzleLeave a comment

DSD Summer Reading #3

DR JEFFREY MICHAELS As this academic year comes to a close, so too have I reached my limit for non-fiction. And having read too many essays consisting of sentence fragments, I thought I’d begin my holiday by reading an author known for the longest sentences in literature. Thus I look forward to Marcel Proust’s In Search… Read More DSD Summer Reading #3

July 9, 2018July 4, 2018 benkienzleLeave a comment

DSD Summer Reading #2

PROF GREG KENNEDY Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, Vintage, London, 2017. Varoufakis’ tale of political failure, moral victory and individual weakness is a modern day tale of strategic thought and planning that speaks to the very core of many of the themes raised in various courses here at… Read More DSD Summer Reading #2

July 2, 2018July 1, 2018 defenceresearchLeave a comment

DSD Summer Reading 2018 #1

This is the first in a series of short posts in which members of the Defence Studies Department share what they have been/will be reading this summer. We hope that you’ll be inspired to pick some of the titles up for yourself! DR KEN PAYNE My next writing project is about sex and statecraft, so… Read More DSD Summer Reading 2018 #1

June 29, 2018June 28, 2018 defenceresearch2 Comments

Avoiding War, Making Peace

RICHARD NED LEBOW is Professor of International Political Theory in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (part-time) and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He is also a Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He has taught strategy at the National and Naval War Colleges and served as a… Read More Avoiding War, Making Peace

June 25, 2018June 8, 2018 benkienzleLeave a comment

THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GENERAL: FROM INDIVIDUAL TO COLLECTIVE COMMAND

PROF ANTHONY KING Professor Anthony King specialises in the study of the war and the armed forces and is particularly interested in the question of small unit cohesion. His most recent publications include The Combat Soldier: infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Oxford, 2013) and (ed.) Frontline: combat and cohesion in… Read More THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GENERAL: FROM INDIVIDUAL TO COLLECTIVE COMMAND

June 20, 2018 defenceresearchLeave a comment

Conference Report of inaugural Sir Michael Howard Centre Joint KCL/Oxford PhD Conference, 23 April 2018

ANDREW HARRIS April saw the inaugural History of War Conference organised in partnership by King’s College London and the University of Oxford. The event was organised for PhD students from both institutions, sponsored by the Sir Michael Howard Centre and held at KCL’s Strand campus. The programme consisted of a set of small panel discussions,… Read More Conference Report of inaugural Sir Michael Howard Centre Joint KCL/Oxford PhD Conference, 23 April 2018

June 18, 2018June 13, 2018 defenceresearchLeave a comment

What is War?

JEREMY BLACK Prof. Jeremy Black studied at studied at Queens’ College Cambridge, St John’s College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining the University of Durham as a lecturer in 1980. There he gained his PhD and ultimately his professorship in 1994. He joined Exeter University as Established Chair in History in 1996, and is currently a… Read More What is War?

June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 defenceresearchLeave a comment

AMERICAN EMPIRE: REALITIES AND UNCERTAINTIES

A.G. HOPKINS Tony Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History in the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, and Emeritus Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History in the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Stirling and Birmingham, and… Read More AMERICAN EMPIRE: REALITIES AND UNCERTAINTIES

June 6, 2018June 4, 2018 defenceresearch1 Comment

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