Andrew Livsey

Andrew Livsey left the Royal Navy in 2023 after 25 years as a warfare officer and is now completing a PhD at King’s College London on the development of sea power thought in the Cold War, while also working for the Ministry of Defence. He has previously published in the RUSI Journal, as well as the Mariner’s Mirror and the Naval Review, where he won the Editor’s Prize for best article in 2017 and 2018. He has also won the Sir Michael Howard Prize for coming top of the MA on staff course in 2017, and held the Hudson Fellowship with the Changing Character of War Centre at Oxford University from 2021–22.