Tom Dyson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4134688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Dyson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyson |
| SIGNATURE | DYSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8360-646X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality
Drawing on extensive original empirical research, this article examines the adoption of NATO's lessons-learned process within the Netherlands Army. It finds that existing accounts of military learning inadequately explain how practices shape formal learning processes and organisational learning in a military context. The case study reveals important, but hitherto neglected, routinised practitioner behaviours which enable and hinder the adoption, …
Organisational learning during the Donbas War
This article examines the development and performance of formal organisational learning processes in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) during the Donbas War (2014-present). Through original empirical research conducted with UAF personnel and documentary analysis, the article develops understanding about the detail of UAF lessons-learned processes and their effectiveness in helping to recalibrate UAF activities to operational demands. The article f…
The Challenge of Creating an Adaptive Bundeswehr
This article examines the capacity of the German Army to establish key conditions for successful tactical- and operational-level adaptation, innovation and emulation. In doing so, it explores the factors which stimulate and block adaptation, innovation and emulation. The article points to the need for accounts of German foreign, defence and security policy to pay greater attention to the intra-organisational barriers to effective policy implement…
The military as a learning organisation
The post-Cold War era has witnessed the rapid expansion of organisational learning initiatives within NATO militaries, especially formal “lessons-learned” processes. The effectiveness of national lessons-learned processes in recalibrating military activity to the demands of ongoing operations has been highly-differentiated. However, the academic literature on military change and practitioner guidance has been slow to investigate the key features …
Energy Security and Germany's Response to Russian Revisionism
This article examines the impact of German dependence on Russian gas supplies for Europe's ability to apply effective sanctions against Russia. It demonstrates that by focusing on the environmental dimensions of energy policy and a policy of rapprochement with Russia, Germany has neglected the security of supply implications of its dependence on Russian gas. The article argues that Germany's excessive energy dependence on Russia has limited the a…
Precision-Strike Technology and International Intervention
German Defence Policy under the Second Merkel Chancellorship
The CDU/CSU/FDP coalition (2009–13) has witnessed the emergence of three important changes in the international security environment: the US ‘Asia Pivot’, the global financial crisis and the fallout from Germany's backseat role in the Libya crisis. This article examines how German defence policy has adapted to this changing context. It explores the reforms which have taken place to the Bundeswehr's structure and military capability procurement pr…
Balancing Threat, not Capabilities
Cladi and Locatelli's conceptualization of CSDP as an instance of bandwagoning on US power has significant analytical leverage; however, their analysis fails to outline an alternative systemic explanation to the balance of power. This contribution argues that European defence cooperation is best understood by using a neoclassical realist analysis that integrates the insights of Stephen Walt's ‘balance of threat’ theory. Furthermore, it is argued …
The Material Roots of European Strategy
This article undertakes a critical examination of the analytical leverage provided by the literature on strategic culture in explaining the development of the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). It posits that patterns of progress and stasis in CSDP cannot be fully explained by processes of normative convergence and the resilience of national strategic cultures. Instead, the article argues that a focus on material power sh…
Organizing for Counter-insurgency
Why do allies not adapt evenly even in time of war? This article maps and explains differentiation in the development of the stabilization and counter-insurgency doctrines of the British and Germanmilitaries during deployment in Afghanistan. In doing so the study analyses the neglected issue of the organizational capabilities of the British and German militaries to develop and apply military doctrine that is appropriate to the exigencies of the c…
Afghan Endgames
Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War, Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla (eds). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012, pp. 248, $29.95/£20.75 (paperback)
Managing Convergence
Condemned forever to becoming and never to being’? The Weise Commission and German Military Isomorphism
Despite several post-Cold War reforms which have promised far-reaching change, the Bundeswehr faces a set of deficits in force structures, capabilities, doctrines and military adaptation, which leave it in danger of slipping permanently behind its European partners. The study examines the extent to which reforms proposed by the Commission on Structural Reform of the Bundeswehr will remedy these deficiencies. It finds that the proposals of the Com…
Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII
Despite only having influence at court for a short period of five years and holding the ministerial position for eight months, Charles d’Albert duc de Luynes made a lasting impression. Where he appears in the traditional historiography, Luynes has a reputation as an ill-educated, weak, indecisive man who advanced a large number of unworthy relatives and bears a great responsibility for the murder of Concini. While some historians argue about the …
Defence Policy under the Labour Government
This article examines the process and outcome of defence reform under the Labour government, with a particular focus on the structuring of military input to defence planning. It argues that UK defence reform has been characterised by dynamism at the tactical and operational levels but that organisational politics between the services has impacted upon decisions surrounding defence capability procurement and force posture. The core executive has b…
Convergence and Divergence in Post-Cold War British, French, and German Military Reforms
Post-Cold War military reforms in Britain, France, and Germany have been characterized by patterns of convergence in the objectives, instruments, and institutional forums of defense policy but by divergence in temporality. These patterns of convergence and divergence cannot be fully explained by cultural approaches. Neither can they be explained solely by a focus on the role of international structure, as neo-realism posits, although the post-Col…
British Policies towards Axis Reprisals in Occupied Greece
This article has two purposes. First, by means of archival and interview research it contributes an original empirical investigation of British wartime policy on an issue that has been neglected in the literature. The article sheds light on the way in which the difficult moral issue of reprisals was handled in Whitehall. Second, it seeks to compare four different interpretations of the way in which this policy developed. These models are drawn fr…
India's Historical Demography
Fertility and Mortality. Theory, Methodology and Empirical Issues
The Endangered Sex
Demography of the Dobe !Kung
Fertility, mortality and income ‐ changes over the long run
Balancing Threat, not Capabilities
Cladi and Locatelli's conceptualization of CSDP as an instance of bandwagoning on US power has significant analytical leverage; however, their analysis fails to outline an alternative systemic explanation to the balance of power. This contribution argues that European defence cooperation is best understood by using a neoclassical realist analysis that integrates the insights of Stephen Walt's ‘balance of threat’ theory. Furthermore, it is argued …
The military as a learning organisation
The post-Cold War era has witnessed the rapid expansion of organisational learning initiatives within NATO militaries, especially formal “lessons-learned” processes. The effectiveness of national lessons-learned processes in recalibrating military activity to the demands of ongoing operations has been highly-differentiated. However, the academic literature on military change and practitioner guidance has been slow to investigate the key features …
Managing Convergence
German Defence Policy under the Second Merkel Chancellorship
The CDU/CSU/FDP coalition (2009–13) has witnessed the emergence of three important changes in the international security environment: the US ‘Asia Pivot’, the global financial crisis and the fallout from Germany's backseat role in the Libya crisis. This article examines how German defence policy has adapted to this changing context. It explores the reforms which have taken place to the Bundeswehr's structure and military capability procurement pr…
Convergence and Divergence in Post-Cold War British, French, and German Military Reforms
Post-Cold War military reforms in Britain, France, and Germany have been characterized by patterns of convergence in the objectives, instruments, and institutional forums of defense policy but by divergence in temporality. These patterns of convergence and divergence cannot be fully explained by cultural approaches. Neither can they be explained solely by a focus on the role of international structure, as neo-realism posits, although the post-Col…
Organisational learning during the Donbas War
This article examines the development and performance of formal organisational learning processes in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) during the Donbas War (2014-present). Through original empirical research conducted with UAF personnel and documentary analysis, the article develops understanding about the detail of UAF lessons-learned processes and their effectiveness in helping to recalibrate UAF activities to operational demands. The article f…
Energy Security and Germany's Response to Russian Revisionism
This article examines the impact of German dependence on Russian gas supplies for Europe's ability to apply effective sanctions against Russia. It demonstrates that by focusing on the environmental dimensions of energy policy and a policy of rapprochement with Russia, Germany has neglected the security of supply implications of its dependence on Russian gas. The article argues that Germany's excessive energy dependence on Russia has limited the a…
Organizing for Counter-insurgency
Why do allies not adapt evenly even in time of war? This article maps and explains differentiation in the development of the stabilization and counter-insurgency doctrines of the British and Germanmilitaries during deployment in Afghanistan. In doing so the study analyses the neglected issue of the organizational capabilities of the British and German militaries to develop and apply military doctrine that is appropriate to the exigencies of the c…
The Challenge of Creating an Adaptive Bundeswehr
This article examines the capacity of the German Army to establish key conditions for successful tactical- and operational-level adaptation, innovation and emulation. In doing so, it explores the factors which stimulate and block adaptation, innovation and emulation. The article points to the need for accounts of German foreign, defence and security policy to pay greater attention to the intra-organisational barriers to effective policy implement…
Defence Policy under the Labour Government
This article examines the process and outcome of defence reform under the Labour government, with a particular focus on the structuring of military input to defence planning. It argues that UK defence reform has been characterised by dynamism at the tactical and operational levels but that organisational politics between the services has impacted upon decisions surrounding defence capability procurement and force posture. The core executive has b…
The Material Roots of European Strategy
This article undertakes a critical examination of the analytical leverage provided by the literature on strategic culture in explaining the development of the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). It posits that patterns of progress and stasis in CSDP cannot be fully explained by processes of normative convergence and the resilience of national strategic cultures. Instead, the article argues that a focus on material power sh…
Condemned forever to becoming and never to being’? The Weise Commission and German Military Isomorphism
Despite several post-Cold War reforms which have promised far-reaching change, the Bundeswehr faces a set of deficits in force structures, capabilities, doctrines and military adaptation, which leave it in danger of slipping permanently behind its European partners. The study examines the extent to which reforms proposed by the Commission on Structural Reform of the Bundeswehr will remedy these deficiencies. It finds that the proposals of the Com…
British Policies towards Axis Reprisals in Occupied Greece
This article has two purposes. First, by means of archival and interview research it contributes an original empirical investigation of British wartime policy on an issue that has been neglected in the literature. The article sheds light on the way in which the difficult moral issue of reprisals was handled in Whitehall. Second, it seeks to compare four different interpretations of the way in which this policy developed. These models are drawn fr…
Fertility, mortality and income ‐ changes over the long run
Demography of the Dobe !Kung
The Endangered Sex
Fertility and Mortality. Theory, Methodology and Empirical Issues
India's Historical Demography
British Policies towards Axis Reprisals in Occupied Greece
This article has two purposes. First, by means of archival and interview research it contributes an original empirical investigation of British wartime policy on an issue that has been neglected in the literature. The article sheds light on the way in which the difficult moral issue of reprisals was handled in Whitehall. Second, it seeks to compare four different interpretations of the way in which this policy developed. These models are drawn fr…
Convergence and Divergence in Post-Cold War British, French, and German Military Reforms
Post-Cold War military reforms in Britain, France, and Germany have been characterized by patterns of convergence in the objectives, instruments, and institutional forums of defense policy but by divergence in temporality. These patterns of convergence and divergence cannot be fully explained by cultural approaches. Neither can they be explained solely by a focus on the role of international structure, as neo-realism posits, although the post-Col…
Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII
Despite only having influence at court for a short period of five years and holding the ministerial position for eight months, Charles d’Albert duc de Luynes made a lasting impression. Where he appears in the traditional historiography, Luynes has a reputation as an ill-educated, weak, indecisive man who advanced a large number of unworthy relatives and bears a great responsibility for the murder of Concini. While some historians argue about the …
Defence Policy under the Labour Government
This article examines the process and outcome of defence reform under the Labour government, with a particular focus on the structuring of military input to defence planning. It argues that UK defence reform has been characterised by dynamism at the tactical and operational levels but that organisational politics between the services has impacted upon decisions surrounding defence capability procurement and force posture. The core executive has b…
Managing Convergence
Condemned forever to becoming and never to being’? The Weise Commission and German Military Isomorphism
Despite several post-Cold War reforms which have promised far-reaching change, the Bundeswehr faces a set of deficits in force structures, capabilities, doctrines and military adaptation, which leave it in danger of slipping permanently behind its European partners. The study examines the extent to which reforms proposed by the Commission on Structural Reform of the Bundeswehr will remedy these deficiencies. It finds that the proposals of the Com…
Organizing for Counter-insurgency
Why do allies not adapt evenly even in time of war? This article maps and explains differentiation in the development of the stabilization and counter-insurgency doctrines of the British and Germanmilitaries during deployment in Afghanistan. In doing so the study analyses the neglected issue of the organizational capabilities of the British and German militaries to develop and apply military doctrine that is appropriate to the exigencies of the c…
Afghan Endgames
Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War, Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla (eds). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012, pp. 248, $29.95/£20.75 (paperback)
Balancing Threat, not Capabilities
Cladi and Locatelli's conceptualization of CSDP as an instance of bandwagoning on US power has significant analytical leverage; however, their analysis fails to outline an alternative systemic explanation to the balance of power. This contribution argues that European defence cooperation is best understood by using a neoclassical realist analysis that integrates the insights of Stephen Walt's ‘balance of threat’ theory. Furthermore, it is argued …
The Material Roots of European Strategy
This article undertakes a critical examination of the analytical leverage provided by the literature on strategic culture in explaining the development of the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). It posits that patterns of progress and stasis in CSDP cannot be fully explained by processes of normative convergence and the resilience of national strategic cultures. Instead, the article argues that a focus on material power sh…
Precision-Strike Technology and International Intervention
German Defence Policy under the Second Merkel Chancellorship
The CDU/CSU/FDP coalition (2009–13) has witnessed the emergence of three important changes in the international security environment: the US ‘Asia Pivot’, the global financial crisis and the fallout from Germany's backseat role in the Libya crisis. This article examines how German defence policy has adapted to this changing context. It explores the reforms which have taken place to the Bundeswehr's structure and military capability procurement pr…
Energy Security and Germany's Response to Russian Revisionism
This article examines the impact of German dependence on Russian gas supplies for Europe's ability to apply effective sanctions against Russia. It demonstrates that by focusing on the environmental dimensions of energy policy and a policy of rapprochement with Russia, Germany has neglected the security of supply implications of its dependence on Russian gas. The article argues that Germany's excessive energy dependence on Russia has limited the a…
The military as a learning organisation
The post-Cold War era has witnessed the rapid expansion of organisational learning initiatives within NATO militaries, especially formal “lessons-learned” processes. The effectiveness of national lessons-learned processes in recalibrating military activity to the demands of ongoing operations has been highly-differentiated. However, the academic literature on military change and practitioner guidance has been slow to investigate the key features …
The Challenge of Creating an Adaptive Bundeswehr
This article examines the capacity of the German Army to establish key conditions for successful tactical- and operational-level adaptation, innovation and emulation. In doing so, it explores the factors which stimulate and block adaptation, innovation and emulation. The article points to the need for accounts of German foreign, defence and security policy to pay greater attention to the intra-organisational barriers to effective policy implement…
Organisational learning during the Donbas War
This article examines the development and performance of formal organisational learning processes in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) during the Donbas War (2014-present). Through original empirical research conducted with UAF personnel and documentary analysis, the article develops understanding about the detail of UAF lessons-learned processes and their effectiveness in helping to recalibrate UAF activities to operational demands. The article f…
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality
Drawing on extensive original empirical research, this article examines the adoption of NATO's lessons-learned process within the Netherlands Army. It finds that existing accounts of military learning inadequately explain how practices shape formal learning processes and organisational learning in a military context. The case study reveals important, but hitherto neglected, routinised practitioner behaviours which enable and hinder the adoption, …
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