Norman Cigar is Director of Regional Studies and the Minerva Research Chair at the Marine Corps University, U.S.A., and is the author of Saddam’s Nuclear Vision: An Atomic Shield and Sword for Conquest. During the Gulf War, he was the U.S. Army’s senior political-military intelligence staff officer on the Desert Shield/Desert Storm Task Force. He holds a DPhil from Oxford (St Antony’s College).
Rear Admiral James Goldrick, Royal Australian Navy (Ret) is a graduate of the RAN College, the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, the University of NSW and the University of New England and a Doctor of Letters honoris causa of UNSW. He commanded HMA Ships Cessnock and Sydney (twice), the multinational maritime interception force in the Persian Gulf and the Australian Defence Force Academy. As a Rear Admiral, he led Australia’s Border Protection Command and then the Australian Defence College. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Sea Power Centre-Australia and the Lowy Institute, a Professorial Fellow of the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security and an Adjunct Professor of the University of NSW Canberra at ADFA. His books include: The King’s Ships Were at Sea: The War in the North Sea August 1914-February 1915, No Easy Answers: The Development of the Navies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and, with Jack McCaffrie, Navies of South-East Asia: A Comparative Study.
Matthew Lewis is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin. He was awarded his PhD in History at Queen’s University Belfast in 2011.
David Littlewood completed his BA in History at the University of Nottingham, before moving to New Zealand in 2007. He has since produced an MA Thesis that examined the operations of the Military Service Boards in the Wellington Provincial District during the Great War. That work is currently being expanded on for a PhD thesis, which will compare the operations of the Military Service Boards across the whole of New Zealand with those of the Military Service Tribunals sitting in a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
