Profile
Tom is Senior Lecturer in Security Studies.
His most recent book - Vicarious Warfare: American Military Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap - was published by Bristol University Press in 2021. His first book - War, Clausewitz and the Trinity - interpreted Clausewitz's theory of war and related it to contemporary debates about the nature of modern conflict. Tom has also published widely on war, strategy, statebuilding, intra-state war, the research-policy nexus, Afghanistan and Clausewitz in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as International Affairs; Survival, Contemporary Security Policy; Defence Studies; Parameters; Civil Wars; Journal of Statebuilding and Intervention; and Conflict, Security and Development.
Tom has experience working in conflict-affected countries including Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nepal and Afghanistan. He is member of the editorial board of the journal Contemporary Security Studies and the Palgrave book series Studies in Contemporary Warfare.
Tom has an ESRC-funded PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick (2009), an MRes in Politics and International Relations (Distinction) and an MA in International Studies from Sheffield University, and a BA Hons in History from Newcastle University.