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My names is Julian Lindley-French and I am Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy, a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Atlantic Council of the United States, Fellow of Respublica in London, Associate Fellow of Chatham House and of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Studies, as well as a Senior Associate Fellow of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

I am also a member of the Strategic Advisory Panel of General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff in London and Head of the Commander’s Initiative Group (CIG) for NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC). A Strategic Programme Advisor for Wilton Park he is also a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the NATO Defence College in Rome.

I was formerly Special Professor for Strategic Studies at Leiden University and a Course Director at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. European Co-Chair of the US-European Working Group on Stabilisation and Reconstruction Missions for CSIS and Project Leader for the Atlantic Council’s Stratcon 2010 project on the NATO Strategic Concept. .

Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England in 1958 I am an Oxford historian and Oxford Blue. I received a Masters Degree in International Relations (with distinction) from UEA and holds a doctorate in political science from the European University Institute. I have lectured in European Security at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London, and therein was Deputy Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA). I was Senior Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris and acted as a senior advisor to the NATO Secretary-General in Brussels where in 1999 he was recognised for outstanding service.

In January 2007 I published a new book entitled NATO: The Enduring Alliance for Routledge in the US and Europe. In January 2008 I published a book on the history of European defence for Oxford University Press which was nominated for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature. In April 2010 I published A New Alliance for a New Century in Washington for the Atlantic Council. In November 2010 I published a new Whitehall Report for RUSI entitled Between the Polder and a Hard Place - The Netherlands Armed Forces and Defence Planning Challenges for Smaller European Countries. In December 2010 I published a major paper for Chatham House entitled Britain and France: A Dialogue of Decline? and in October 2011 published another report for Chatham House on Strategic Communications and National Strategy with Professor Paul Cornish of Bath University. In February 2012 I published the Oxford Handbook on War for Oxford University Press with Professor Yves Boyer of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris which has also been nominated for the Duke of Westminster Medal. I am currently preparing a book on British national strategy with William Hopkinson a former senior official at the Ministry of Defence.