Christina Goulter

Christina Goulter

Dr Christina Goulter is a New Zealand-born and educated British military historian who is currently a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. Between 1994 and 1997 Dr Goulter served as an Associate Visiting Professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island.[1]

Dr Goulter researches and teaches on air power, intelligence and counter-insurgency studies. Her works include one book, A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-Shipping Campaign 1940-1945 (London: Frank Cass, 1995), and various articles on current aerospace subjects, intelligence, the Special Operations Executive in World War II, and counter-insurgency warfare. A forthcoming book will deal with British intervention in the second round of the Greek Civil War, with a particular focus on urban counter-insurgency.

Dr Goulter is a member of the CAS Air Power Workshop, a small working group of scholars and other theorists convened by the Chief of Air Staff (the head of the Royal Air Force). She is also Committee member, Royal Aeronautical Society, and is on the Advisory Panels of several journals, including Strategic Studies Quarterly. She is also a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies.[2]

In August 2006 she was quoted as arguing that it was the Royal Navy, not the Royal Air Force, that won the Battle of Britain in 1940.[3] Dr Goulter, along with two other historians, later issued a rebuttal, arguing that their holistic view of British defences had been seriously misrepresented. She said that that British Air Power, as a whole played the decisive role in victory, and this included Bomber and Coastal Commands, as well as the Fleet Air Arm. [4]

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