Biography

Strategic Studies Consultant, Educator and Researcher.

I am the Laughton-Corbett Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and a British Academy Research Scholar.

I offer insight to making sound decisions for policy, strategy and doctrine by translating historical patterns and human experience into actionable insight for making sound decisions on policy, strategy, doctrine and organisation. This is enabled through sustained, rigorous and objective engagement with the past and facts, using a sophisticated professional methodology of analysis to provide the best guidance, ably used, on real problems and able issues ranging from seabed to space for today and tomorrow.

My work focuses on the development of national defence strategy, the art of war and the development of defence organisation. In short, the applied history school underpins my efforts and research in the field of strategic studies, strategic thought and theory and elements within it such as maritime, naval and space strategy. This is built on a framework of decades of sustained work, such as my role as the Laughton-Corbett Fellow, a role created to advance strategic studies, my PhD in ‘War and Strategic Studies’ and my MRes in Applied History.

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