Geoffrey Till

Geoffrey Till

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

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Till graduated from King's College London with a bachelor's degree in 1966, a master's degree in 1968 and a doctorate in military history in 1976. He was on a NATO scholarship at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey . He taught at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and the Department of System Science at City University London , was 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 from the Open University and was visiting professor at the United States Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia in 1989 . After the closure of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, he taught at the Joint Services Command and Staff College , where he was Dean of Academic Studies, and at the same time at King's College, which he became a Fellow in 2006.

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

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

Till has been in charge of reviews in the Journal of Strategic Studies since it was founded in 1978, has been editor of the Navies and Technology series at Brassey's since 1987, and is editor of the Naval History and Policy series at Routledge.

Fonts

• Modern Sea Power: An Introduction London: Brassey's Defense, 1987
• Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century . London: Frank Cass, 2004, 2nd edition, Routledge 2009
• 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)
• with Bryan Ranft : The Sea in Soviet Strategy , London: Macmillan, 1983, 2nd edition 1989
• Seapower: Theory and Practice, London: Frank Cass, 1994
• with 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
• Revised version of Stephen Roskill The Strategy of Seapower , London: John Goodchild, 1986
• Publisher: The Future of British Sea Power , London: Macmillan, 1984
• Published by Britain and NATO's Northern Flank , Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988
• Editor with John Pay: East-West Relations in the 1990s: The Naval Dimension , London: Pinter, 1990
• Edited with 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
• Published in: Seapower at the Millennium , Gloucester: Sutton, 2001
• Editor The Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranft , London: Routledge, 2006
• Editor with Emrys Chew, Joshua Ho: Globalization and Defense in the Asia-Pacific , London: Routledge, 2007
• Published by The Rise of Naval Power in Asia-Pacific , London: Routledge: Adelphi series, 2012

Web links

• King's College website