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The Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, at King’s College London, and All Souls College, University of Oxford, are delighted to announce their second joint international conference.
The conference is aimed at scholars of deterrence, intelligence, and counter-insurgency, and will bring together an international cohort interested particularly in the early Cold War years (1946-1969). As NATO rethinks both nuclear and conventional deterrence, there are lessons from the early years of the Cold War. When the West slid into the Cold War, the intelligence apparatus was reconfigured to meet new challenges, both in terms of state-on-state threats and counter-insurgency.
The early Cold War years were dominated by revelations over the so-called ‘atom spies’ and the extent of Soviet penetration of government on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Britain and France were facing Communist insurgencies in Europe, North Africa and the Far East. In Britain’s case, its first taste of a Communist insurgency occurred in Greece, even before the end of WWII.
Event details
War Studies Meeting Room K6.07Strand Campus
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS