Dr Joel Hayward

Dr Joel Hayward taught strategy and operational art at the Joint Services Command and Staff College before becoming, in November 2005, the Head of the new Air Power Studies Division created by the Royal Air Force and King's College London. He and his team of academics are based at the historic and prestigious Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, of which he was appointed the Dean in April 2007. Four months later he was also appointed a Director of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies (RAF CAPS). Dr Hayward is additionally a member of the CAS Air Power Workshop, a small working group of scholars and other theorists convened by the Chief of Air Staff, Royal Air Force. He is also the academic lead, and air power conceptual designer, of King’s new MA, Air Power in the Modern World (subject to validation), as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of both the World War II Quarterly and the Air Power Review.
 
A former Senior Lecturer in Defence and Strategic Studies at the Centre for Defence Studies in New Zealand, his birth country, Dr Hayward has taught in, or lectured to, many officer cadet colleges and command and staff colleges around the world. He continues to teach or advise on air power matters at military academies and colleges throughout Europe and beyond and is a regular speaker at air power conferences. He holds fellowships from the USAF and the Federal Government of Germany. He has written or edited six books and dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles, as well as countless newspaper pieces. While retaining his primary focus on air power, Dr Hayward has a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity and nowadays gains greatest pleasure from researching and writing on the ethics of air power and the complex relationship between air power and ecology. Some of his works have been translated into German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Serbian. His work in progress, “A ‘Bomb and Pray’ War: Explaining Yugoslavia's Stubborn Resistance to NATO Coercion in 1999,” is behind schedule but should appear in bookstores before long. In May 2007 three of Dr Hayward's earlier articles on German strategy and operational art were considered sufficiently meritorious to be republished by eminent English historian Professor Jeremy Black in a volume of "seminal articles" on the Second World War.
 
In August 2009 Dr Hayward will convene his third major international air power studies conference in as many years. The 2009 conference analyses a highly important but previously little-studied subject about which he feels enormous personal passion: the relationship between modern air power and environmental ethics. Dr Hayward also designed and convened the 2008 Conference of the Council of Military Education Committees of the Universities of the United Kingdom (COMEC).
 
Selected Publications/Conference Papers.  See attached file below