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.
DUNCAN ANDERSON, the Head of the Department of War Studies at Sandhurst since 1997, has degrees from the University of Queensland, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Oxford. Following 9/11, Dr. Anderson deployed to Iraq (2005 and 2006), attached to the Iraqi Military Academy at Ar Rustamiyah. He also embedded with the USMC (January 2005) in Fallujah and the U.S. Army (July–August 2006) in Ramadi, witnessing heavy fighting in both cities. Dr. Anderson embedded with 1 Royal Anglian in Sangin (Summer 2007), again witnessing intense combat, and embedded again with this regiment in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand in summer 2012. With Britain’s establishment of a military academy in Kabul, Dr Anderson deployed in January 2013 and returned to the UK in December 2014.
ROGER CHAPMAN, Associate Professor of History at Palm Beach Atlantic University, obtained his doctorate in American Culture Studies and History at Bowling Green State University. For years, he has regularly taught a course on the history of modern terrorism from the French Revolution to Al-Qaeda. Prior to becoming an academic, Chapman served in the U.S. Army with the 1st Ranger Battalion and was a participant in the ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw. Dr Chapman is editor of Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices (2 vols.). In addition, his articles on various topics pertaining to the Cold War or terrorism have appeared in Spies, Wiretaps, and Secret Operations: The Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment, the Encyclopedia of the Cold War, and An Encyclopedia of American Espionage.
PAUL DIXON is Reader in Politics and International Studies at Kingston University, having taught previously at the universities of Ulster, Leeds, and Luton. He is the editor of The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). This evolved from a conference on the British approach to counterinsurgency organized with the Royal United Services Institute in September 2007 and a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies. He is also author of Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace (Palgrave, 2nd edition, 2008) and with Eamonn O’Kane, Northern Ireland since 1969 (Pearson, 2011). He is currently researching the impact of fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on British society and democracy.
AARON EDWARDS is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Awarded his Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast in 2006, he has written extensively about terrorism and insurgency, with a particular interest in the Northern Ireland “Troubles” and Britain’s role in the Middle East. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is author of A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism (Manchester University Press, 2009, 2011), Defending the Realm? The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars since 1945 (Manchester University Press, 2012), and Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire (Mainstream Publishing, 2014). He is currently writing two books: War: A Beginner’s Guide for Oneworld Publications and Strategy in War and Peace for Edinburgh University Press.
DANIEL MARSTON, BA MA (McGill) DPhil (Oxford) FRHist holds a Professorship in Military Studies and is also the Principal of the Military and Defence Studies Program at the Australian Command & Staff College in Canberra. He previously held the Ike Skelon Distinguished Chair of the Art of War at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He has been a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. He was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He advised the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and the British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2006 and 2014.
PETER J. RAINOW Ph.D. is author and coauthor of five books and more than 60 chapters and articles in military and international history published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, USSR, Russia, and Ukraine. In 1996–97, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University; in 1990–92, he also participated in the Consensus Project on the future of International Relations at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. In 1987–98, he taught International History and International Relations at the University of Odessa, USSR/Ukraine.
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 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.
PAUL ROSENTALL joined the Royal Air Force in 1970 and, after jet training, became a helicopter pilot, instructor, and examiner, flying over 6,000 hours in several types of helicopter all over the world. He commanded a squadron, completed many years on operations and was a Joint Helicopter Force Commander in the Balkans. Interspersed with flying, he attended RAF Staff College and completed staff tours in Strategic Plans, Contingency (War) Plans, and Exercise Plans in Headquarters RAF Air Command. Retiring after 40 years in the RAF with the rank of Wing Commander, his passionate interest in military history and strategy led him to complete a Masters degree in Military History at the University of Buckingham. His thesis was about the confrontation between Indonesia and the United Kingdom over the formation of Malaysia, 1963–66.
WILLIAM A. TAYLOR is Assistant Professor of Security Studies at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He earned a doctorate in History at George Washington University. Taylor won grants from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and Society for Military History and a George C. Marshall/Baruch Fellowship to research his forthcoming Every Citizen a Soldier to be published with Texas A&M University Press. Taylor won Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation and Gerald R. Ford Foundation grants to research In the Service of Democracy to be published with University Press of Kansas. In addition to his academic credentials, Taylor served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps for more than six years, holding posts in III Marine Expeditionary Force, Expeditionary Force Development Center, and Marine Corps Combat Development Command.
JAMES WORRALL is Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Studies in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests lie within Security Studies and International Relations with primary geographical focus on the Gulf and the Levant, and thematic focus on Gulf Politics, Regional International Organisations, Security Sector Reform, Regime Stability, and Legitimacy and Counterinsurgency Strategy, with particular emphasis on non-Western approaches to COIN, the role of escalation, allies, and microdynamics, especially territoriality. For the latter, see: “Bringing the Soil Back In: Control and Territoriality in Western and Non-Western COIN?” in Celeste Ward-Gventner, et al., eds., The New Counter-Insurgency Era in Critical Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Dr Worrall’s monograph, Statebuilding and Counterinsurgency in Oman, was published by IB Tauris in 2014.
EDMUND YORKE (Ph.D. Cambridge) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is also currently serving as a counterinsurgency advisor on “Insider Threats/Killings Prevention” in Afghanistan for the UK Ministry of Defense. He is a specialist in British Imperial and Commonwealth military history and post–World War II counterinsurgency campaigns. His many published books and articles have included, The New South Africa: Prospects for Domestic and International Security (Macmillan, 1997), Playing the Great Game: Britain, War and Politics in Afghanistan since 1839 (Robert Hale, 2012), and Forgotten Colonial Crisis: Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War, 1914–18 (Taurus/Macmillan, 2014). He was present, as an independent observer, during the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe independence transition period in early 1980.