Matthew FordResearch Associate (International Relations)
Selected publications
Article
Ford, Matthew (2019) The epistemology of lethality: bullets, knowledge trajectories, kinetic effects. European Journal of International Security. ISSN 2057-5637
Ford, Matthew and Gould, Alexander (2018) Military identities, conventional capability and the politics of NATO standardisation at the beginning of the Second Cold War, 1970-1980. The International History Review, 41 (4). pp. 775-792. ISSN 0707-5332
Ford, Matthew, Hodgetts, Timothy and Williams, David (2017) Innovation strategies for defence: the successful case of Defence Medical Services. RUSI Journal, 162 (2). pp. 52-58. ISSN 0307-1847
Ford, Matthew and Hoskins, Andrew (2017) Flawed, yet authoritative? Organisational memory and the future of official military history after Chilcot. British Journal for Military History, 3 (2). pp. 119-132. ISSN 2057-0422
Ford, Matthew (2016) Marksmanship, officer-man relations and the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield. War in History, 23 (3). pp. 278-295. ISSN 0968-3445
Ford, Matthew (2014) Building stability overseas: three case studies in British defence diplomacy – Uganda, Rhodesia–Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 25 (3). pp. 584-606. ISSN 0959-2318
Ford, Matthew (2014) Influence without power? Reframing British concepts of military intervention after 10 years of counterinsurgency. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 25 (3). pp. 495-500. ISSN 0959-2318
Ford, Matthew (2013) Towards a revolution in firepower? Logistics, lethality, and the Lee-Metford. War in History, 20 (3). pp. 273-299. ISSN 0968-3445
Ford, Matthew (2013) Precision targeting and the industrialisation of the Intelligence Cycle on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Inteligencia y Seguridad: Revista de Análisis y Prospectiva, 13. pp. 221-243. ISSN 1887-293X
Ford, Matthew, Rose, Patrick and Body, Howard (2012) COIN is dead - long live transformation. Parameters, XLII (Autumn). pp. 32-43. ISSN 0031-1723
Ford, Matthew Charles (2012) Finding the target, fixing the method: methodological tensions in insurgent identification. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 35 (2). pp. 113-134. ISSN 1057-610X
Michaels, Jeffrey H and Ford, Matthew (2011) Bandwagonistas: rhetorical re-description, strategic choice and the politics of counter-insurgency. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 22 (2). pp. 352-384. ISSN 0959-2318
Ford, Matthew (2009) Operational research: military judgement and the politics of technical change in the British infantry, 1943-1953. Journal of Strategic Studies, 32 (6). pp. 871-897. ISSN 0140-2390
Book
Ford, Matthew (2017) Weapon of choice: small arms and the culture of military innovation. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 9780190623869
Ford, Matthew (2017) Weapon of choice: small arms and the culture of military innovation. Hurst & Co Ltd, London. ISBN 9781849046503
Book Section
Ford, Matthew (2014) Learning the right lessons: military transformation in crisis and the future of Britain's armed forces. In: LoCicero, Michael, Mahoney, Ross and Mitchell, Stuart (eds.) A military transformed? Adaptation and innovation in the British military, 1792-1945. Wolverhampton military series . Helion & Company, Birmingham, pp. 246-259. ISBN 9781909384460
Edited Book
Hargreaves, Andrew L, Rose, Patrick J and Ford, Matthew C (2014) Allied fighting effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945. History of Warfare . Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004255708