Dr Marcus Faulkner
Department of War Studies
Room K7.27
King’s College London
London
WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9.00-11.00 or by appointment
Areas of interest
He tweets on behalf of the Laughton Naval History Unit @ https://twitter.com/NavalHistWar
Biography
Marcus Faulkner holds a BA in War Studies (2000) from King’s College London and a MA in Politics, Security and Integration from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL (2003). His PhD entitled ‘Intelligence, Policy and the Kriegsmarine in the Interwar Period’ was completed with the Department of War Studies in 2008. He has been teaching in the department since 2005 and has contributed across the spectrum of undergraduate core courses. Currently he convenes the undergraduate intelligence studies module and acts as a tutor on the War Studies Online programme teaching seapower, strategy and contemporary warfare.
Research
Marcus Faulkner’s research is currently is divided between the history of intelligence organisations and government in the era of the world war’s and the interaction between sea power and national strategy in the twentieth century.
Publications
Based on his PhD research he is writing a monograph on German naval intelligence between 1919-1945 that will serve as the basis for further projects on the use of information in policy and decision-making in and by the Third Reich. He is jointly editing a volume with Michael Clemmesen entitled Crisis and War in Northern Europe Between Anschluss and Barbarossa – Political and Strategic Responses (Brill, 2013). He is also co-authoring a book entitled, European Navies and the Conduct of War, with Alan James and Carlos Alfaro-Zaforteza (Routledge, 2014).
Publications
Based on his PhD research he is writing a monograph on German naval intelligence between 1919-1945 that will serve as the basis for further projects on the use of information in policy and decision-making in and by the Third Reich. He is jointly editing a volume with Michael Clemmesen entitled Crisis and War in Northern Europe Between Anschluss and Barbarossa – Political and Strategic Responses (Brill, 2013). He is also co-authoring a book entitled, European Navies and the Conduct of War, with Alan James and Carlos Alfaro-Zaforteza (Routledge, 2014).
Recent publications include:
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The Kriegsmarine and the Aircraft Carrier: The Design and Operational Purpose of the Graf Zeppelin, War in History 19/4 (2012)
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War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1939-1945 (Naval Institute Press, 2012)
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The Kriegsmarine, Signals Intelligence and the Development of the B-Dienst Before the Second World War, Intelligence and National Security 25/4 (2010)