Edited by Julian Lindley-French, Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy, Netherlands Defence Academy, Associate Fellow Royal Institute for International Affairs, and Yves Boyer, Ecole Polytechnique, Deputy Director Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris

Julian Lindley-French is a member of the Atlantic Council of the United States as well as Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and Senior Associate Fellow of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He is Head of the Commander's Initiative Group (CIG) for NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) in which he is leading efforts to operationalise the Comprehensive Approach, as well as a member of the Strategic Advisory Group in Washington. He was formerly a Course Director at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and European Co-Chair of the US-European Working Group on Stabilisation and Reconstruction Missions for CSIS and Project Leader for the Atlantic Council's Stratcon 2010 project on the NATO Strategic Concept. He is Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy, and Special Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leiden.

Dr Yves Boyer is Professor at Ecole polytechnique, the most prestigious French Grande Ecole, teaching "Geopolitics and Strategy". The Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) in Paris, he is a former senior researcher at the French Institute for International Affairs (IFRI), at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS-London) and a Woodrow Wilson Scholar (Washington D.C.). He is also the vice-president of the board of the Comité d'Etude de Défense Nationale (Paris), a member of the editorial boards of the Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales, the Revue de Géoéconomie (Paris) and Questions Internationales (Paris).

Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies and Vice-Principal, King's College London
Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of War and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University
George-Henri Soutou, Professor Emeritus at Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) University and Member of the Institute de France, Paris
Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
Yves Boyer, Deputy Director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) and Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
Alfredo Valladao, Chair of Mercosur, Sciences Po, Paris
Paul Schulte, Nonresident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Serge Sur, Professor of International Law, Paris Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) University
Ambassador Alyson Bailes, Visiting Professor at the University of Iceland.
Christian Malis, Scientific Director, Fondation Saint-Cyr
Ambassador Robert E. Hunter, Senior Adviser, RAND, Washington
Julian Lindley-French, Special Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leiden, and Senior Associate Fellow of the Defence Academy
Sir Paul Lever, Chairman, Royal United Services Institute, London
Général d'Armées, Jean-Louis Georgelin, Chef d'Etat-Major des Armées, France
William Hopkinson, former Director of Studies, Royal Institute for International Affairs and Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Policy, Ministry of Defence, UK
Isabelle Facon, Research Director and the Foundation for Strategic Research and Maître de conférence, Ecole Polytechniques, Paris
General Peng Guang Qian, Academy of Military Science, Beijing, China
Vice-Admiral Fumio Ota, JMSDF (ret.d), PhD, Director of the International Exchange Programme, National Defence University, Yokosuka, Japan
Lt Gen Andrew Graham, Director-General, United Kingdom Defence Academy
General Peter van Uhm, Chief of Defence of the Netherlands
Ben Schoenmaker, Netherlands Institute of Military History
General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, United Kingdom Armed Forces
Rob de Wijk, Director, Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and Professor of International Relations, Leiden University
Lt. General Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, NATO.
Colonel Gian P. Gentile, United States Military Academy at West Point and Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
Matthew Uttley, Professor and Dean of Academic Studies, Kings College London
Dr Christopher Kinsey, Lecturer, Kings College London
Général de Corps d'Armée Antoine Lecerf, Commandant de la Force d'Action Terrestre, Lille
Admiral The Right Honourable Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC PC, Former Security Minister and First Sea Lord, Royal Navy, London
Air Commodore Frans Osinga, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda
Colonel Ton de Munnik, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda
Colonel Michel Goya, Etat-Major des Armées, Paris
Xavier Pasco, Maître de Recherche, FRS & Maître de Conférence, Sciences Po, Paris
Chris Donnelly, Director of the Institute for Statecraft and Governance, Oxford.
Commander Simon Atkinson, Royal Navy and Cambridge University
Heinz Schulte, Editor, Griephan Publications
Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations and former Chief Executive, European Defence Agency, Brussels
Ambassador Robert G. Bell, former Assistant Secretary-General, NATO, Brussels and Special Representative of the US Secretary of Defense to Europe.
Paul Cornish, Carrington Chair, Royal Institute for International Affairs, London
Andrew Rathmell, Principal, Libra Advisory
Hans Binnendijk, Vice President for Research, National Defense University, Washington
Jacqueline Carpenter, Policy Analyst, National Defense University, Washington
Radha Kumar, Director, Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, New Delhi
Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary-General, NATO, Brussels
Caroline Wyatt, Defence Correspondent, BBC, London
Michael Clarke, Director, Royal United Services Institute, London (RUSI)

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