Our #maritimeseminar series restarts on 11 Jan. Event links will or are posted on the War Studies events page. Link: kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/eve…

The 2023-2024 #maritimeseminar series continues on 11 January 2024. Attached is a list of upcoming papers.
Events are normally listed on the War Studies events page: kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/eve…

📣 Missed the annual Sir Michael Howard lecture 'An unlikely match: The grand alliance in WWII'?

Professor Margaret MacMillan looked at the nature of alliances, the differences among them, and the reasons for their successes or failures.

Watch it here👇
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Nobody will read naval history, maritime strategy, naval policy, and related books if the price of purchasing them continues to rise. University libraries will also struggle, and many titles will sadly gather dust in irrelevant places far from any readers & researcher’s grasp.

#RedSea
Economic disruption due to issues over the security of shipping has a way of motivating the political mindset to intensify the use of their navies, even as this is hardly a new tactic in history, which perhaps says more about understanding of the sea & sea power today.

📚As strategic tensions rise globally, will special forces become crucial for future operations?

The book ‘The Ethics of Special Ops’ co-authored by Dr Dr David W 💙 explores the emergence of special operations as a prominent instrument of statecraft.

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The 2023-2024 #maritimeseminar series continues on 11 January 2024. Attached is a list of upcoming papers.
Events are normally listed on the War Studies events page: kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/eve…

🌊🏛️ How does the German Maritime Museum reshape our view of the sea's role in history?

Professor Dr Ruth Schilling examines the museum's transformative shift in maritime history research.

🗓️ Tomorrow, 17:15 to 19:30
📍Dockrill Room
Register here👇
ow.ly/N98050QfTxY

The Laughton-Corbett Research fellow will be hosting a conversation on #space power and #space warfare with Dr John Klein on 30 January 2024 where they will discuss Klein's latest publication & debate #navies in #space . War Studies Security Studies King's SSPP kcl.ac.uk/events/space-p…

The final full episode w/ a guest of the #PrebleHall naval history podcast in which I interview Dr. Nick Lambert about his forthcoming book, 'The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power.'

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

In the latest #RUSIDefenceSystems article, Strategyforward explores whether the Royal Navy’s five-year deployment of HMS Tamar and Spey to the Indo-Pacific region offers a compelling alternative vision for maritime defence engagement and experimentation.
rusi.org/explore-our-re…

We are pleased to announce that we are co-organising the PGR conference 'New Directions in the History of War' with University of Oxford.

This will bring students from the two institutions together to share cutting-edge research on the history of war.

Full details & CfP⬇️

We've updated our website and various social media ouputs.
👋 Don't forget the last maritime seminar of this year this coming Thursday!
kcl.ac.uk/events/changin…

🎬 'Instead of Napoleon the weirdo, we should have been treated to either a villain or a hero.'

We asked Dr Michael Rowe, Reader in European History (King's History) to review Ridley Scott's new historical drama starring Joaquin Phoenix & Vanessa Kirby ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk/disjointed-rus…

CfP PGR conference 'New Directions in the History of War'. A Joint Conference Organised by Sir Michael Howard & University of Oxford
Conference date: 28 June 2024 hosted by King’s College London. Full details & CfP🔽

💡Don't forget 14 Dec Annual British Commission for Maritime History Proctor Lecture.
'Changing Perspectives: Positioning the Sea in Recent German Historiography' by Prof. Ruth Schilling
(German Maritime Museum/ Leibniz-Institute for Maritime History)
eventbrite.com/e/annual-bcmh-…