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TimBenbow
TimBenbow

Dr Tim Benbow

Reader in Strategic Studies

Research interests

  • Conflict
  • History
  • Policy
  • Security

Biography

Dr Tim Benbow studied at Oxford as an undergraduate (at Brasenose College) and as a graduate (at St Antony's College). He also spent a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar and a year at King's College London.

After being awarded his doctorate he remained at Oxford, conducting a post-doctoral research project and teaching International Relations and Strategic Studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including one year as a Tutor in Politics at University College.

Tim spent two years teaching at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, before joining the Defence Studies Department in 2004. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008, and to Reader in Strategic Studies in 2016.

He created the Defence Studies Department PhD programme in 2011. In 2015 the Institute of Historical Research awarded him the Sir Julian S Corbett Prize in Modern History.

 

Research Interests:

  • Naval Strategy and History (especially naval aviation and amphibious warfare) - Second World War and after
  • UK strategy and defence policy
  • Warfare since 1945
  • Changing character of war and future warfare

His current research projects cover the role in naval and national strategy of battleships during and immediately after the Second World War; and the Royal Navy and the aircraft carrier question, 1945-1963.

 

Publications

Articles

Books

Chapters

  • UK Military Strategy: The Maritime Pivot, Benbow, T.J., 2020, Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO.  Matlary J.H. & Johnson, R. (eds).  Hurst / Oxford University Press, pp.349-67 
  • The future of naval conflict and lessons from history, Benbow, T. J., 2016, Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security. Krause, J. & Bruns, S. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 27-43

 

MA Special Subject:

  • Making Strategy: From Policy to the Use of Military Power

 

PhD Supervision:

Dr Tim Benbow is happy to offer PhD supervision in the following subject areas:

  • Naval history and strategy; Second World War and post-1945
  • UK Strategy and defence policy; Second World War, post,-1945 and contemporary

 

Dr Tim Benbow PURE Profile

Research

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Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies

The Corbett Centre develops and promotes the understanding and analysis of maritime policy and strategy

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The First World War Research Group

The First World War Research Group brings together a wealth of expertise on military, diplomatic, social, and cultural aspects of the conflict.

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The Second World War Research Group

Second World War Research Group

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Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War

The centre promotes the scholarly history of war in all it's dimensions, trains research students and hosts research projects and conferences

academic books
King's Contemporary British History

The study of Contemporary British History goes back to the 1960s, and was consolidated with the establishment of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1985 by (Sir) Anthony Seldon and (Lord) Peter Hennessy. The Institute moved to King’s College London in 2010, and the new King’s Contemporary British History builds on this by creating a larger and more diverse enterprise, building on that distinguished tradition.

News

Fact vs Fiction – Academics challenge the historical accuracy of recent Hollywood blockbusters

Fact vs Fiction – Defence Studies Academics Dr Tim Benbow and Professor Ashley Jackson challenge the historical accuracy of recent Hollywood blockbusters...

A soldier standing on the beach in Christopher Nolan's film, 'Dunkirk'.

Events

29Apranchor-3815858_1920

‘Largely a matter of sentiment’: the demise of the battleship in the post-1945 Royal Navy

A Defence Studies seminar from Dr Tim Benbow

Please note: this event has passed.

Spotlight

Using history to inform UK naval strategy and doctrine

King’s research on naval history and naval strategy during and since the Second World War has influenced the UK’s naval doctrine and helped inform a new...

art-navy-ship-the-carrier-class-invincible-english-unbeaten-indomitable-will-invincible-royal-british-military-maritime-fleet-navy-great-britain

Research

art-navy-ship-the-carrier-class-invincible-english-unbeaten-indomitable-will-invincible-royal-british-military-maritime-fleet-navy-great-britain
Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies

The Corbett Centre develops and promotes the understanding and analysis of maritime policy and strategy

WW1
The First World War Research Group

The First World War Research Group brings together a wealth of expertise on military, diplomatic, social, and cultural aspects of the conflict.

war-1172111_1920
The Second World War Research Group

Second World War Research Group

SMHC newlogo 780x440
Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War

The centre promotes the scholarly history of war in all it's dimensions, trains research students and hosts research projects and conferences

academic books
King's Contemporary British History

The study of Contemporary British History goes back to the 1960s, and was consolidated with the establishment of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1985 by (Sir) Anthony Seldon and (Lord) Peter Hennessy. The Institute moved to King’s College London in 2010, and the new King’s Contemporary British History builds on this by creating a larger and more diverse enterprise, building on that distinguished tradition.

News

Fact vs Fiction – Academics challenge the historical accuracy of recent Hollywood blockbusters

Fact vs Fiction – Defence Studies Academics Dr Tim Benbow and Professor Ashley Jackson challenge the historical accuracy of recent Hollywood blockbusters...

A soldier standing on the beach in Christopher Nolan's film, 'Dunkirk'.

Events

29Apranchor-3815858_1920

‘Largely a matter of sentiment’: the demise of the battleship in the post-1945 Royal Navy

A Defence Studies seminar from Dr Tim Benbow

Please note: this event has passed.

Spotlight

Using history to inform UK naval strategy and doctrine

King’s research on naval history and naval strategy during and since the Second World War has influenced the UK’s naval doctrine and helped inform a new...

art-navy-ship-the-carrier-class-invincible-english-unbeaten-indomitable-will-invincible-royal-british-military-maritime-fleet-navy-great-britain