New Journal – Journal of Military Operations
It is always nice to see a new journal in the War Studies field. The IJ Group, which produces the Infinity Journal, is launching a new journal called the Journal […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Revisiting Churchill’s Army: New Directions in the Study of the British Army in the Second World War
Revisiting Churchill’s Army: New Directions in the Study of the British Army in the Second World War Arts Building, University of Birmingham Friday 14 September 2012 Conference Organiser – Dr […]
Operation JUBILEE and the Transformation of Air Support for Combined Operations: The Case of Command and Control and Aerial Bombardment
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] Operation JUBILEE, the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942, has remained an area of intensive and divisive debate amongst historians. Debate remains over questions […]
‘From ‘Jock Column’ to Armoured Column: Transformation and Change in British and Commonwealth Unit Tactics in the Western Desert, January 1941 to November 1942
This chapter looks at the various factors that influenced the transformation of offensive tactics in the Western Desert Force (later Eighth Army) of the British Army, from more conventional doctrines […]
‘Despised and Neglected’: Transformation and Innovation in British Air Defence, 1922-1935
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] The conventional wisdom is that British air defence was, in A. J. P. Taylor’s words, ‘despised and comparatively neglected before the war’ and that victory […]
Centre for War Studies Summer Day School – The Military Lessons of the Great War 1918-40
Centre for War Studies Public Programme The Summer Day School Saturday, 23 June 2012 The Military Lessons of the Great War 1918-40 The final years of the Great War saw […]
