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The next War Studies Seminar at the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham, is the annual John Terraine Lecture: Professor Gary Sheffield (University of Birmingham) ‘Douglas Haig, John Terraine, and the History of the First World War’ The event will be on 1 May 2012. The Seminar meets on TUESDAYS at 5.30 p.m. in [...]

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The next War Studies Seminar at the Centre for War Studies at the University of Birmingham is an Air Power Seminar and is being given by: Ross Mahoney (University of Birmingham) ‘Leadership Effectivness: Understanding a Key Metric of Operational Military History – The Case of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory‘ The event will be [...]

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[Cross posted at Thoughts on Military History] In an era of fourth generation warfare where the achievement of strategic end-goals lay squarely at the feet of politicians, the application of fighting power as a militaries core warfighting capability is being increasingly questioned with a concentration on Counter Insurgency (COIN) and Peacekeeping Support Operations (PSO). For [...]

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I’ve been re-reading some Clausewitz lately in an effort to nail down a theoretical basis for a concept I’m currently working on, and I strolled across his chapter on military genius (pp.100-112 in H&P edition). This got me thinking, in this modern age of instant communications, images from the front line and the capacity for [...]

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