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Andrew Brookes
Position: Associate Fellow
After graduating from Leeds University, Andrew Brookes completed RAF pilot training in 1968. Following recce and strike tours during which he logged 3,500 flying hours, he joined the tri-service policy and plans staff of Commander British Forces, Hong Kong. After serving in HQ Strike Command Plans staff and the Inspectorate of Flight Safety, he was appointed as the last operational RAF Commander at the Greenham Common cruise missile base.
He spent a year studying International Relations at Downing College, Cambridge, before becoming a Group Director at the RAF Advanced Staff College. He earned an Open University MBA in 1995. His final tour was in MoD Consultancy and Management Services.
He is now Aerospace Analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has written twelve aviation books, including Photo Reconnaissance, The V-Force, Air War over Italy and Air War over Russia. He publishes and broadcasts widely and he received the Defence Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in 2004 and 2006. He is a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators and is vice-president of No.343 (Camberwell) ATC Squadron.
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