Tim Benbow

The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. Meer

In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its rapid expansion and evolution radically altered the nature of maritime power and naval strategy. Meer