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Dr Goulter
Dr Goulter

Dr Christina Goulter

Reader in Military History and Air Power

Research interests

  • Conflict
  • History
  • Security

Biography

Dr Christina Goulter is a Reader in Military History and Air Power at the Defence Studies Department. Between 1994-1997, she was Associate Professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College, Newport, RI, USA. She is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. She is a prize-winning author, and her next book deals with British intervention in the second round of the Greek Civil War, 1944-45.

Dr Goulter is Co-Director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, Co-lead, with Professor Bill Philpott, Military and Political History Theme and Lead of the Air Power Studies Research Group.

Research Interests

  • Civil Wars (Greece)
  • Counter-insurgency (historical and recent campaigns)
  • Air Power (historical and recent campaigns)
  • Intelligence (Second World War)

Current research deals with British intervention in the second round of the Greek Civil War, 1944-45. Recent research includes the Libyan air campaign, 2011, and intelligence aspects of WWII. 

Publications

  • A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1940-1945 (Frank Cass, 1995)
  • 'The Greek Civil War: A National Army's Counter-Insurgency Triumph', Journal of Military History, No. 78, July 2014, 1017-1055. (Moncado Prize Winner)
  • 'The British Experience: Operation Ellamy' in Precision and Purpose: Airpower in the Libyan Civil War (RAND, 2015), 153-175.
  • 'The UK Political Rationale for Intervention and Its Consequences' in Dag Henriksen and Ann Karin Larssen, Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya (Oxford University Press, 2016), 45-66.

Dr Christina Goulter PURE Profile

Teaching

MA Special Subject: Vietnam, 1965-73.

PhD supervision: Air Power, Intelligence and Counter-Insurgency. 

Research

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.

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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.

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Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group

The ECCRG aims to be an academic centre of excellence for developing sustained, inter-disciplinary research on the study of Economic Warfare.

Events

08JunMPH Panel

Trends in the historiography: Land, maritime and air warfare

Military & Political History panel for the School of Security Studies Research Conference 2022

Please note: this event has passed.

02JunSSSResConMilandPolHist

Past shocks and present day echoes

Military & Political History panel event for the School of Security Studies Research Conference.

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

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.

F673BBBE-71AF-422F-999B-908BE90A05A0
Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group

The ECCRG aims to be an academic centre of excellence for developing sustained, inter-disciplinary research on the study of Economic Warfare.

Events

08JunMPH Panel

Trends in the historiography: Land, maritime and air warfare

Military & Political History panel for the School of Security Studies Research Conference 2022

Please note: this event has passed.

02JunSSSResConMilandPolHist

Past shocks and present day echoes

Military & Political History panel event for the School of Security Studies Research Conference.

Please note: this event has passed.