Richard Michael Connaughton (born 20 January 1942) is a British Army officer and author specialised in military history.

Life

Connaughton was educated at

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and the

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.
Curriculum vitae
'. In: connaughton.org.uk, access date 18 August 2013. He served in the

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for more than 30 years, where he specialised in military logistics. Connaughton was stationed in East Asia at the

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, before being seconded to Germany and Northern Ireland. Connaughton was an instructor at the Army Staff College Camberley and at the Australian Command and Staff College. After two years of service as head of Defence Studies of the British Army he voluntarily resigned from active service in the rank of a colonel. Since the mid-1980s, Connaughton has written on military history, e.g. on subjects such as the Russian-Japan War, Admiral

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's service during the

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or General

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. Connaughton is an elected

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of the Institute of Management (1983) and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport (1989). From 1989 to 1990 he undertook a Defence Fellowship at the

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. In 1992 Connaughton became Research Fellow of the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS) of Lancaster University. He holds a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil Cantab) in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Politics of Lancaster University. Connaughton is married to Annis Rosemary Georgina Best since 1971.BP2003 volume 3, page 4258. He has a son (born 1972) and a daughter (born 1974).

Work

* ''The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–05''. London, New York, Routledge, 1988, . * ''The Republic of the Ushakovka: Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia, 1918–20''. London, New York, Routledge, 1990, . * ''Military Intervention in the 1990s: A New Logic of War''. London, New York, Routledge, 1992. * ''Swords and Ploughshares: Coalition Operations, the Nature of Future Conflict and the United Nations: A Paper''. Camberley, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1993. * ''Shrouded Secrets: Japan's War on Mainland Australia, 1942–1944''. London, Washington D.C., Brassey's, 1994, . * ''The Battle for Manila''. Novato, CA, Presidio, 1995, . * ''The Nature of Future Conflict''. London, Leo Cooper, 1995, . * ''Celebration of Victory, V-E Day 1945''. London, Washington D.C., Brassey's, 1995, . * ''Descent Into Chaos: The Doomed Expedition to Low's Gully''. London, Washington D.C., Brassey's, 1996, . * ''Military Support and Protection for Humanitarian Assistance: Rwanda, April – December 1994''. Camberley, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1996. * ''MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines''. Woodstock, New York, Overlook Press, 2001, . * ''Military Intervention and Peacekeeping: The Reality''. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate, 2001, . * ''Omai: The Prince Who Never Was''. London, Timewell Press, 2005, . * ''A Brief History of Modern Warfare''. London, Robinson, Philadelphia, Running Press, 2008, .

References

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