CHRIS TUCK In a paper published recently, I explore some of the challenges of thinking about technology and the future of war. We’ve seen in the world in the last fifty years or so what many consider to be an unprecedented rate of technological change, a process that seems to be speeding up. For example,… Read More Technology, Uncertainty, and Future War
LOUISE KETTLE Dr Louise Kettle is an Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Her research examines how lessons from history are learned and the relationship between Britain and the Middle East. Her latest book Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East is… Read More What is Military Learning in the C21st?
MATT LEWIS Matt Lewis is a PhD student at the Defence Studies Department and an Infantry Battalion Commander in the British Army. His research focuses on decolonising the concept of violence, with specific reference to Algeria and Critical Theory. He tweets in a personal capacity as @mattlewisfab. Accounts from 20th Century graduates of NATO Staff Colleges… Read More The Elusion of Critique: On Developing Critical Approaches in Defence Discourse
EMILIE CLERET Emilie Alice Cléret is Head of the English Department within the Enseignement militaire supérieur – the French Higher Military Education. She designs the English courses for the Ecole de guerre– the French War College – and for the Centre des hautes etudes militaires– the higher command and staff course. You can read more… Read More The Necessary Death of the One-size-fits-all Approach: Transformative Pedagogy in Higher Military Education
GROUP CAPTAIN CLARE MUIR Group Captain Clare Muir is currently the Director of the RAF Division at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham. She completed a Chief of the Air Staff’s Tedder Fellowship at Cambridge studying International Relations in 2013 and attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in academic year 2017/18. You can follow her at… Read More The Importance of Being Curious
JIM BEACH Dr Jim Beach of the University of Northampton explains the birth and early years of an important forum for interwar military debate. Jim has edited the military papers of Lieutenant Colonel Cuthbert Headlam for the Army Records Society. On 24 February ninety-nine years ago, two former British army officers sat down and discussed… Read More Discussing Defence: Cuthbert Headlam and the Army Quarterly
HEBER ACKLAND Commodore Ackland is a Royal Navy Officer and UK Defence Academy staff member, you can follow him on Twitter at @HeberAckland. Recently I was scrolling through the online version of the Washington Post when I was drawn to a striking headline describing twitter as the crystal meth of the newsrooms, ‘a drug [sic:… Read More Use Responsibly: Twitter and the Ideas Network
SOPHY GARDNER Sophy Gardner is a PhD student at the University of Exeter, and a former RAF Wing Commander of twenty-years experience. You can follow her on Twitter @sophygardner In many ways, the newly created RAF’s approach to the resource and recruitment challenges of the early inter-war period was highly modern, presaging later educational reforms such… Read More ‘Your Boy’s Future’ – Apprentice Training and Social Mobility in the Early Royal Air Force
GERAINT HUGHES The 4th March 1978 was a pivotal day in one of the most obscure decisive battles in military history. The battle of Jijiga was the climax of an eight month war between Ethiopia and Somalia, provoked by the latter’s territorial claim on the province of Ogaden, and it was a crushing victory for the… Read More THE BATTLE FOR THE HORN OF AFRICA: A RETROSPECTIVE
PAUL BARNES Paul Barnes is a British Army Warrant Officer and the current Army Visiting Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. His research focuses on adaptability and the diffusion of innovation in contact. He has seen operational service in the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and holds an MA in Military History from… Read More Encouraging the horse…
