Department of War Studies

The Department of War Studies is rated third for teaching excellence after Oxford and Cambridge in the 2011 Guardian University Guide  for Politics and third for the volume of world-leading and internationally excellent research after Oxford and the LSE in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
 
The Department is focused on promoting our understanding of warfare in all its myriad forms, including, conventional wars, wars of national liberation, civil wars, counter insurgency wars, new wars, and the so-called "war on global terror”.
 
The War Studies Group -comprising the departments of War Studies and Defence Studies-contributes to public life, participates in national and international networks, maintaining its international reputation for excellence in scholarship and policy-relevant research.
 
 

'Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century -- The Battle, The Myth, The Legacy', has been selected for the 2009 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize by the US Branch of the Western Front Association. Dr Philpott's book was judged to be the best work of history on World War I in English.
Dr William Philpott also received a 2010 Supervisory Excellence Award for his outstanding supervision and support to research students at King’s.
 

Professor Brian Holden Reid was presented with the Moncado Award by the President of the Society for Military History at an Awards Luncheon in Lexington, VA.  The award recognised  his outstanding article, 'Michael Howard and the Evolution of Modern'  published in the 73rd volume of The Journal of Military History.

Veterans Aid CEO Dr Hugh Milroy has become a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies. With effect from 1 July 2010 he will become the only head of a military charity to hold such a position. Dr Milroy will work closely with the King’s Centre for Military Health Research. Read the full press release attached.

Frankiln: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation (Faber) by Andrew Lambert in July 2009 is now out in Paperback. From ‘the outstanding naval historian of his generation’ (David Cannadine), this is a gripping story of the Arctic, propelled by the need to recover the truth about one man’s fatal mission.
 
Read more at  www.faber.co.uk

On 29 May 2010, the Laughton Naval History Unit organised a visit to NATO’s Standing NRF Mine Countermeasures Group 2 (SNMCMG2) during a short diplomatic visit of the naval group to London. Some 40 postgraduate students led by Prof Andrew Lambert and Dr Alessio Patalano were granted access to ITS Granatiere, the group's flagship, and ITS Rimini, a mine-hunters, and briefed on NATO's activities in the Mediterranean area.

The War Studies Dept football team won the Tolstoy Cup for the first time. Despite the blistering heat, they emerged victorious against Peace Studies, University of Bradford in a hard fought game claiming a 2-1 win.

The King's Centre for Military Health Research published a new paper in The Lancet discussing the mental health of UK military personnel deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The study has been reported by the BBC, The Independent and The Guardian and
Press TV.Read the full article in The Lancet, 13 May 2010.