Dr Jeff Michaels
Research Associate
Research interests
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Strategic studies
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U.S./U.K. national security policy
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Counterinsurgency theory
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Military and intelligence history
Biography
Jeffrey H. Michaels is Research Associate in the Department of War Studies coordinating an ESRC-sponsored project entitled 'Strategic Scripts for the 21st Century', which is headed by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman.
Prior to this, Jeff served as a Lecturer with the Air Power Studies Division of the Defence Studies Department. Earlier experience has included serving as an intelligence officer attached to the US European Command and the Pentagon's Joint Staff, consulting for the Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, working as a research assistant and an occasional lecturer on the staff of the NATO School (SHAPE) in Oberammergau, Germany, and interning with the Office of the Special Advisor for Central and Eastern European Affairs, Private Office of the Secretary General of NATO in Brussels. He completed his PhD in War Studies at King's in 2009 focusing on contemporary US political-military discourse.