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Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06Ten years after British troops entered Afghanistan, a new book dissects the strategic decisions that took the UK to war in Helmand.
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Dr Jonathan Eyal
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Michael Codner
The nature and uses of military force, US military doctrine, Armed inducement, Command and control, intelligence interoperability, UK Defence Policy.
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Colonel The Hon. Alastair Campbell
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Andrew Garfield
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Professor Malcolm Chalmers
UK security policy, international burden sharing, arms control, conflict prevention.
Knox Chityo
African Security, Southern-Africa, Zimbabwe
Alexander Neil
Asia-Pacific security and defence issues, North Korea, China, South-east Asia, Indian-Pakistan relations, Asian globalization issues.
Dr Lee Willett
Naval forces and maritime strategy, notably submarines and sea-based land attack weapons, Nuclear strategy & weapons, Strategic arms control.
Bill Kincaid
Procurement, Defence Management.
Alastair Cameron
NATO policy and operations, EU defence and security matters, NATO-EU relations and the defence industry in Europe, Energy Security and Missile Defence in Europe.
Michael Williams
US Foreign and Security Policy, Canadian Foreign and Security Policy, North American-UK-European security operations and relations, NATO force transformation, strategic development and operation deployments (Afghanistan), Transatlantic defence industry co-operation.
Amyas Godfrey
Defence policy, military operations, current military issues relating to the UK Armed Forces.
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