Dr. Patrick Bury

Patrick Bury is a lecturer in Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Bath; his research focuses on military and counter-terrorism organizational transformation and cohesion.   Prior to entering academia, Patrick served in the British Amy for five years as an infantry Captain during which time he deployed to Sangin, Afghanistan.  A memoir of his platoon’s tour, ‘Callsign Hades’ was published in 2010 and has been described as ‘the first great book of the Afghan war’.  After leaving the Army, he worked as an analyst for NATO and then a private security firm, before reading for his PhD on the Reserves at the University of Exeter. Patrick has 15 years’ experience of working in the security sector as practitioner, analyst and academic.