- David Jordan, King’s College London
David Jordan is Deputy Head of the Defence Studies Department, King's College London, based at the Defence Academy of the UK, Shrivenham and a founding co-director of the Freeman Air & Space Institute. He also serves as a Director of the RAF's Centre Air & Space Power Studies and has authored numerous articles and book chapters addressing air and space power issues.
- James D. Kiras, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, USA
James D. Kiras is Dean and Professor at the School of Advanced Air & Space Studies (SAASS), the US Air Force's premier school of strategy. He is the author of Special Operations Success: Balancing Capabilities and Control (2025) and Special Operations Strategy: From World War II the War on Terrorism (2006), and co-editor of Into the Void: Special Operations Forces After the War on Terrorism (2024), Strategic Sabotage (2021), and Special Operations: Out of the Shadows (2020).
- David J. Lonsdale, University of Hull
David J. Lonsdale is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the University of Hull. He is the author of Alexander the Great: Lessons in Strategy (2008), The Nature of War in the Information Age: Clausewitzian Future (2003), Alexander, Killer of Men: Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Art of War (2004), and co-author of Understanding Contemporary Strategy (2019).
- Ian Speller, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ian Speller is Professor of Military History and Director of the Centre for Military History and Strategic Studies at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He also lectures at the Irish Military College. He is the author of numerous works on maritime strategy and naval warfare, including Understanding Naval Warfare (2024), The Role of Amphibious Warfare in British Defence Policy, 1945–1956 (2001) and, as co-editor, Small Navies: Strategy and Policy for Small Navies in War and Peace (2014) and Europe, Small Navies and Maritime Security (2021).
- Christopher Tuck, King's College London
Christopher Tuck is Reader in Strategic Studies in the Department of Defence Studies, King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham. He is the author of Understanding Land Warfare (2022), and Confrontation, Strategy, and War Termination (2013), co-author of Amphibious Warfare: Strategy and Tactics from Gallipoli to Iraq (2014) and co-editor of British Propaganda and Wars of Empire: Influencing Friend and Foe (2014).
- C. Dale Walton
C. Dale Walton is a retired Professor of International Relations at Lindenwood University and Senior Fellow with Lindenwood's Hammond Institute. He is the author of The Myth of Inevitable U.S. Defeat in Vietnam (2002), Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-First Century: Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective (2007), and Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World (2012).