Geoffrey Till

Geoffrey Till ( born January 14, 1945 in London ) is a British naval historian. He is a professor in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London and Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies.

Life and work

Till studied at King's College London with a Bachelor 's degree in 1966, her Master's degree in 1968 and a PhD in military history in 1976. He was a NATO fellowship at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. He taught at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and at the Department of System Science, City University London, was a visiting professor at King's College ( Department of War Studies ) and from 1989 Professor of History at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich (London) and also taught at the Open University and in 1989 was visiting Professor at the United States Marine Corps University in Quantico ( Virginia). After the dissolution of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich he taught at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, where he was Dean of Academic Studies, while at King's College, of which he became a Fellow in 2006.

Till was visiting professor at the Armed Forces University in Taiwan, was a visiting professor at the Victoria University of Wellington (2008 ) and at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies ( RSIS ) in Singapore and is on the Council of the Royal United Services Institute. He regularly lectures worldwide on military and naval academies.

He is primarily concerned with naval history after the Second World War, for example, the influence of globalization on the development of the navy in the Asia-Pacific region.

Till cared for since its inception in 1978, the reviews in the Journal of Strategic Studies, since 1987, editor of the series Navies and Technology at Brassey 's, and is editor of the series Naval History and Policy by Routledge.

Writings

  • Modern Sea Power: An Introduction London: Brassey 's Defence, 1987
  • Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty - First Century. London: Frank Cass, 2004, 2nd edition Routledge 2009
  • Development of British Naval Thinking, Routledge 2006
  • Air Power and the Royal Navy, 1914-1945: a historical survey. London: Macdonald and Jane 's, 1979
  • Maritime Strategy and the Nuclear Age London: Macmillan, 1982, 2nd edition, 1984; New York: St. Martins Press, 1984 (with contributions by John Hattendorf )
  • Bryan Ranft: The Sea in Soviet Strategy, London: Macmillan, 1983, 2nd edition 1989
  • Seapower: Theory and Practice, London: Frank Cass, 1994
  • Mark J. Grove, Theo Farrell: Amphibious Operations: A Collection of Papers, Camberley: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute (SCSI ), 1997
  • Naval Transformation, Ground Forces and the Expeditionary Impulse: The Sea - basing Debate, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: SSI, 2006
  • Reworking of Stephen Roskill The Strategy of Seapower, London: John Goodchild, 1986
  • Publisher: The Future of British Sea Power, London: Macmillan, 1984
  • Publisher Britain and NATO 's Northern Flank, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988
  • Published by John Pay: East - West Relations in the 1990s: The Naval Dimension, London: Pinter, 1990
  • Published by John Hattendorf, RJB Knight, AWH Pearsall, Nicholas Rodger, AB Sainsbury: British Naval Documents 1204-1960, Navy Records Society Centenary Volume, 1993
  • Editor with Gary Sheffield: Challenges of High Command in the Twentieth Century, Camberley: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 2000; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
  • Publisher The Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranft, London: Routledge, 2006
  • Publisher with Emrys Chew, Joshua Ho: Globalisation and Defence in the Asia- Pacific, London: Routledge, 2007
  • Publisher The Rise of Naval Power in Asia- Pacific, London: Routledge: Adelphi series, 2012
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