Historical Perspectives on crisis and response: Revising strategy in challenging contexts
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 2021-06-07

This panel examines crisis response and strategic revision in a historical context. The four papers range across history from Classical Greece to the Cold War and afterwards, assessing how strategic and diplomatic actors respond to and learn from sudden, unexpected events.

Panellists:

Chair: by Bill Philpott
The Athenian Oligarchic Coup of 411BC; Re-evaluation of seapower politics, strategy, and identity - Kunika Kakuta, PhD Researcher, Department of War Studies

Sir Julian Corbett,Jutland and the Concept of ‘Decisive’ Battle, and the educational value of experience, Professor Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, Department of War Studies

A New 'Great Game': The Thatcher government and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December 1979 - Dr Geraint Hughes, Reader in Diplomatic and Military History, Defence Studies Department

Hezbollah’s internationalism. The case of the AMIA bombing in historical context - Ignacio Morales Barckhahn, PhD Researcher, Defence Studies Department