Ian SpellerIan Speller is Senior Lecturer in Military History in the Department of 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 and as lectured on maritime strategy and naval warfare at the UK Defence Academy and at NATO headquarters in London and Naples. He is the author of Understanding Naval Warfare (2014) and The Role of Amphibious Warfare in British Defence Policy, 1945–56 (2001), and is co-author/editor of Small Navies: Strategy and Policy for Small Navies in War and Peace (2014), Amphibious Warfare: Strategy and Tactics from Gallipoli to Iraq (2014) and The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century (2005). In addition to this, he has written numerous scholarly articles on naval history and maritime strategy. Read More Read Less