DR ROBERT T. FOLEY I must admit I have rarely planned my summer reading in advance. However, inspired by recent posts by my colleagues from Defence Studies, I thought it would be useful to do so this year. As I sat down to think through what I would really like to read over summer, a… Read More DSD Summer Reading 2018 #5
DR ALEX WILSON Editorial Note: On 14-15 June 2018, the Second World War Research Group held its annual conference on the theme of ‘The Peoples’ War? The Second World War in Socio-Political Perspective.’ Over the coming weeks, we will be posting short blog articles written by some of the conference’s presenters. In this first post,… Read More SWWRG Conference Report – 2018 The Peoples’ War? The Second World War in Socio-Political Perspective
PROF DAVID EDGERTON David Edgerton is a co-director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, King’s College London. His latest book, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth-century History, is published by Allen Lane. You can hear an interview about the book here, and read more from David on… Read More Putting the military back into British History
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
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
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
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
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