Deputy Head
Tel: (65) 6516 3845
Office: AS1 05 - 38

When I am not out kicking footballs around, drinking beer and talking about football, or watching others play it on tv, I like to teach military history here at NUS. My courses are broad approaches to the interplay between war and the civilizations that fight it. My main research interests are the Second World War and the defence of the British Empire in the 20th century. Right now I am working on a study of the military twilight of that defence in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. I have my own monthly radio spot on the RSI program Comment, in which I apply historical perspective to current military and international affairs. So far I have not been able to persuade either of my paymasters to pay me for talking about football!

TEACHING AREAS:

-	Modern Military History
-	History of Modern Imperialism and Empires, especially British

CURRENT RESEARCH:

-	I am working on a history of Far East Command from 1962 through 1971. I am also working on imperial defence and the Jellicoe Tour of 1919.

PUBLICATIONS:

-	The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-1943: Was There a Plan?
-	Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore From First Settlement to Final British Withdrawal (co-authored)
-	Sixty Years On: The Fall of Singapore Revisited (co-edited)
-	Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War (edited)
-	The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 (click here for full citations)

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