GREGORY FREMONT-BARNES holds a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Oxford and serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Dividing his time between teaching cadets on-site and officers of the British Army posted to garrisons throughout Britain and abroad, his wider counterinsurgency teaching and advisory role for the U.K. Ministry of Defence takes him regularly to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South America, and continental Europe. He has lived for extensive periods in Britain, the United States, and Japan and has conducted battlefield studies for the British Army in half a dozen countries, including the Falklands. He has written and edited extensively, with books on a wide range of military and naval subjects spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
JAN FEDOROWICZ (PhD, Cambridge) teaches courses on terrorism in history for the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. Over a teaching career spanning more than 35 years, he has also taught history at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa, and York University. His association with Carleton University began in1985 and he has taught a wide range of courses on topics such as the history of futurist thought, the impact of communications technology on power relationships, and the history of Central Europe, Russia, and Early Modern Europe. Two of his books on Polish history have been published by Cambridge University Press. He has also written a number of articles on scholarly topics including a paper on terrorist threats to energy infrastructure.
KARL HACK is a Senior Lecturer in History at The Open University, having previously taught at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. He has interviewed insurgents up to the level of secretary general of the Malayan Communist Party, and written widely on conflict in Southeast Asia. Key publications include Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia (Richmond, UK: Curzon, 2001); Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party (Singapore: NUS Press, 2004, edited with C. C. Chin); War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, with Kevin Blackburn); and “The Malayan Emergency as Counter-Insurgency Paradigm,” Journal of Strategic Studies 32, no. 3 (2009), pp. 383–414.
MATTHEW HUGHES is Chair in History and Head of the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University. He completed his PhD in 1995 in War Studies at King’s College London before working for the International Institute for Strategic Studies and lecturing at the universities of Northampton and Salford. He was the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair in Military Theory at the US Marine Corps University, 2008–10. He has written extensively on counterinsurgency for journals such as English Historical Review, Journal of Contemporary History, and Middle Eastern Studies, and he recently edited a volume on British counterinsurgency, British Ways of Counter-Insurgency: A Historical Perspective (Oxford: Routledge 2013). He is currently working on a book on British counterinsurgency in Palestine for Cambridge University Press titled The Opaque War: Britain’s Pacification of Palestine, 1936–39.
PETER McCUTCHEON read Law at Edinburgh University, during which time he served in the Reserves. He then attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and commissioned into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in 1985. He saw several operational tours in Northern Ireland between 1986 and 2002. He also spent time peacekeeping in the Sinai Desert and mentoring para-military police in Kenya and led the training delivery aspects of the International Military Advisory and Training Team in Sierra Leone for a year. He is a graduate of the Collège Interarmées de Défense at l’Ecole Militaire in Paris. His final post was as a College Commander at Sandhurst. A retired Lieutenant Colonel, he is now a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Sandhurst, specializing in France’s military role in post-1945 Africa.
SIMON ROBBINS, a Senior Archivist in the Department of Research at the Imperial War Museums, studied History at Nottingham University and earned his doctorate in War Studies at King’s College London. He is an expert on British and Commonwealth military history since 1899. He is author of British Generalship on the Western Front, 1914–18: Defeat into Victory (runner-up for the 2004 Templer Medal), The First World War Letters of General Lord Horne, and British Generalship during the Great War: The Military Career of Sir Henry Horne (1861–1929) and coauthor of Staff Officer: The Diaries of Walter Guinness (First Lord Moyne), 1914–18; Haig’s Generals; and Stemming the Tide: Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force 1914 (runner-up for the 2013 Templer Medal). His book, Dirty Wars: A Century of Counterinsurgency, is forthcoming in 2015.
YANNICK VEILLEUX-LEPAGE worked as an intelligence analyst specializing in international terrorism and emerging threats for several years. He is currently undertaking doctoral studies at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, located at the University of St. Andrews. He recently completed a comprehensive study of the impact of casualties among troops deployed in Afghanistan on public opinion in Canada. He holds an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs and a BA in Directed Interdisciplinary Studies from Carleton University.