Dr David Betz
Senior lecturer
Department of War Studies
Room K7.25
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Email:
david.betz@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1528
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2026
Skype: davidbetz
Blog:
http://kingsofwar.org.uk/
Areas of interest
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Strategy
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Insurgency and counterinsurgency
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Information warfare and cyberwar
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Propaganda
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Civil-military relations
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Russia
Biography
Dr David J Betz BA, MA (Carleton) PhD (Glasgow) joined the Department immediately after completing his PhD in 2002. His main research interests are insurgency and counterinsurgency, information warfare and cyberwar, propaganda, also civil-military relations and strategy (which he thinks are essentially the same thing in practice). Dr David Betz is head of the Insurgency Research Group and was the academic director of the War Studies Online MA for its first five years. He also heads a 2-year US Defense Department Minerva-funded project on ‘Strategy and the Network Society. Beyond the department he is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has advised or worked with the UK MOD and GCHQ on strategic issues, counterinsurgency and stabilization doctrine, cyberspace and cyber strategy. He lectures abroad (United States, Israel and Italy) as well as at the UK at the Defence Academy to the Advanced and Intermediate Command and Staff.
Teaching (MA)
Current:
Evolution of Insurgency
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
History of Contemporary Warfare 1: The Early Cold War, 1945-1975
History of Contemporary Warfare 2: From Cold War to ‘New World Order’, 1975-91
Previous:
Conduct of Contemporary Warfare
Strategic Dimensions of Contemporary Warfare
Regional Security: Middle East
History of Contemporary Warfare Part 1: 1945-91
History of Contemporary Warfare Part 2: 1991-Present
The Revolution in Military Affairs
Doctoral supervision
Dr Betz is happy to offer PhD supervision in the broad area of the conduct of contemporary warfare, with a focus on the following topic areas:
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Insurgency and counterinsurgency
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Information warfare and propaganda
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The revolution in military affairs and force transformation
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Land warfare
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Civil-Military relations
Publications
Dr Betz writing is on a diverse range of subjects including information warfare, the future of land forces, the virtual dimension of insurgency, propaganda of the deed, cyberspace and insurgency, and British counterinsurgency in such journals as the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of Contemporary Security Studies, and Orbis. His book written with PhD student Tim Stevens, Cyberspace and the State w as published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 2012.
For a list of publications, please see: Dr David Betz publications