Ian Gooderson is a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military and strategic studies, especially

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. Gooderson gained his MA and PhD degrees from the Department of War Studies at

before joining the teaching staff at RAF Henlow in 1997 where he taught

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on junior and intermediate courses from 1997 until 2000. Earlier, between 1988 and 1996, he had been a Research Associate within the Department of War Studies, specialising in Air Power and contracted to work with the Centre for Defence Analysis. This involved working on projects analysing various aspects of air power. His best known work is ''Air Power at the Battlefront'' (1998) , which explains and assesses Allied close air support in the latter part of the Second World War. Among Gooderson's many peer reviewed articles is
"Doctrine from the Crucible: The British Air-Land Experience in the Second World War."
''Air Power Review'' Vol. 9 No. 2 (Autumn 2006), pp. 1–13.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gooderson, Ian Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of King's College London Academics of King's College London British military writers Air force historians British military historians British aviation historians