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Ms Anna Nettleship

Managing Director of the King's Wargaming Network

Research interests

  • Conflict and security
  • International relations
  • History

Biography

Anna Nettleship is the Managing Director of the King's Wargaming Network, organising wargaming research and events with King's faculty, staff and international partner organisations, and the head of the Network's Wargame Analyst Programme. She is a PhD candidate in the Defence Studies Department writing a dissertation on US Army doctrinal development practices for contemporary conflict that includes the design and execution of an analytic wargame to examine use of force in warfare.

Previously, Anna Nettleship spent five years active duty as a linguist of Modern Standard Arabic in the Military Intelligence branch of the United States Army. During her contract she worked as Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of Taskings for S3 Operations for the 706th MI GRP managing unit and mission activity for upwards of 600 service members and as a Command Language Program Manager, securing training and testing for a cohort of upwards of 300 linguists and assisting in the management of language facilities for Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force linguists stationed at Fort Gordon, GA. She has worked as staff on multiple wargames prior to and during her work with the Wargaming Network including simulations of conventional, nuclear and hybrid warfare and gray zone conflicts and has spoken on various aspects of wargaming at Connections US and Connections UK.

She holds an MA in War Studies from King's College and a BA in Political, Legal and Economic Analysis from Mills College and has participated in programs of study at the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 

Research

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Wargaming Network

The Wargaming Network aims to advance the theory and application of wargaming as a method of inquiry and as a method of learning and teaching.

News

King's hosts Wargaming Week with NATO ACT

Wargaming enthusiasts and researchers from around the world gathered at 'Wargaming Week 2023' to promote the expansion and democratisation of wargaming as a...

Wargaming 2023

King's Wargaming Network launches new educational programme

An innovative series of courses seek to build wargaming as an academic discipline.

King's Wargaming Network

Events

16AprWargaming Week 2024

King's NATO ACT Wargaming Week 2024

The Wargaming Network is pleased to invite you to join the Wargaming Week 2024 in partnership with NATO ACT.

Please note: this event has passed.

13AprThe Wargaming Network public lecture series 2021/2022

Valid and Meaningful Assessment of Wargames

The Wargaming Network is pleased to announce the first lecture in our 2021-2022 public lectures series on wargaming.

Please note: this event has passed.

01AprThe Wargaming Networks Public Lecture series

Cyber and nuclear stability

Join the Wargaming Network for the third in the series of public lectures on wargaming.

Please note: this event has passed.

05MarThe Wargaming Network Public Lecture series

Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint

The Wargaming Network is organising the second lecture of its 2020-2021 public lectures series on wargaming.

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

Wargaming network illustration 780 by 440px
Wargaming Network

The Wargaming Network aims to advance the theory and application of wargaming as a method of inquiry and as a method of learning and teaching.

News

King's hosts Wargaming Week with NATO ACT

Wargaming enthusiasts and researchers from around the world gathered at 'Wargaming Week 2023' to promote the expansion and democratisation of wargaming as a...

Wargaming 2023

King's Wargaming Network launches new educational programme

An innovative series of courses seek to build wargaming as an academic discipline.

King's Wargaming Network

Events

16AprWargaming Week 2024

King's NATO ACT Wargaming Week 2024

The Wargaming Network is pleased to invite you to join the Wargaming Week 2024 in partnership with NATO ACT.

Please note: this event has passed.

13AprThe Wargaming Network public lecture series 2021/2022

Valid and Meaningful Assessment of Wargames

The Wargaming Network is pleased to announce the first lecture in our 2021-2022 public lectures series on wargaming.

Please note: this event has passed.

01AprThe Wargaming Networks Public Lecture series

Cyber and nuclear stability

Join the Wargaming Network for the third in the series of public lectures on wargaming.

Please note: this event has passed.

05MarThe Wargaming Network Public Lecture series

Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint

The Wargaming Network is organising the second lecture of its 2020-2021 public lectures series on wargaming.

Please note: this event has passed.