DR BEN KIENZLE Finally: it’s summer. The time of skimming books and speed reading has come to an end (albeit only for a short time). Summer also offers the opportunity to look beyond the narrow confines of one’s own research niche. It’s time to ‘think big’! As part of the annual course at RCDS, members… Read More DSD Summer Reading #7
DR BEN WHEATLEY Ben Wheatley is a Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, University of East Anglia and a former Teaching Fellow at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London. His 2017 book, British Intelligence and Hitler’s Empire in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 published by Bloomsbury Academic will be available in paperback from August 2018. You… Read More An Open Secret: British Open Source Intelligence during the Second World War
DR CHRIS TRIPODI Oddly, and in contrast to my colleagues, there’ll be relatively little reading happening for me this summer. Largely because the summer recess that I do get (i.e. August) will be spent writing. Consequently, most of my summer reading has already been done. And very illuminating it has been, I must say. Research… Read More DSD Summer Reading #6
DR DAVID MORGAN-OWEN This summer finds me thinking about how to approach a new book project. I have a sense of what I want to write about, and have been thinking about and researching the topic – or at least around it – for close to a decade. Yet how to break ground on it,… Read More Reading & Research this summer
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
