Joel Hayward's Books and Articles

This small personal website exists merely to encourage an interest in defence, air power studies and current conflicts and to offer source-based arguments about them for readers’ appraisal in the hope of contributing to healthy, respectful discourse.

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Hayward and his daughter Michaela on a very happy day

 

Dr Joel Hayward is a New Zealand-born and educated author and senior defence academic who has lived and lectured in the United Kingdom since 2004. He heads the King's College London air power studies division based at the historic Royal Air Force College, of which the Royal Air Force appointed him Dean in April 2007.

 

 

 

 

He and his academics also teach Royal Air Force NCOs at all levels at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire.[1] 

 

The Royal Air Force also recently appointed Dr Hayward as one of the three Directors of its national think-tank: the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies. [2]

 

At the official lunch of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies, 23 August 2007.

Left to right: Air Commodore Rob Cunningham (Commandant of the Royal Air Force College and Director of Recruitment and Initial Training, RAF), Dr Joel Hayward (Dean of the Royal Air Force College and Head of Air Power Studies, KCL), Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy KCB CBE DSO ADC BSc (Eng) FRAeS FCGI RAF (Chief of the Air Staff, RAF)

 

 

Dr Hayward's own teaching focus is nowadays on Just War and the ethics and ecological impact of modern air power. A traditional social democrat by inclination, he supports the causes of democracy and peace and has resolved to play his part in the war against terror.

Dr Hayward lectures throughout the UK and Europe on air power and other strategic issues. In 2007, for example, he addressed military audiences in Ireland, Norway and Germany (including NATO officers up to three-stars). Already in 2008 he has spoken to military audiences throughout the UK as well as in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

 

 

Dr Hayward holds a B.A., an M.A. Hons. and a Ph.D (University of Canterbury). He has had fellowships from the German government and is a Research Associate of the United States Air Force.

 

In November 1998 the Mayor of his city, Palmerston North, presented Dr Hayward's book on Stalingrad as the city’s official gift to His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, during the latter’s royal tour of New Zealand.[3]

 

That was not Dr Hayward's only contact with the Royal family. In February and March 2008 he taught military ethics, strategic thinking and air power concepts to His Royal Highness Prince William. He considers this "a rare and remarkable honour and pleasure".

 

Until June 2002 Dr Hayward was a Senior Lecturer in Defence and Strategic Studies at Massey University. From 1997 to 2004 he also lectured at the New Zealand Army’s Officer Cadet School in Waiouru and the Air Force’s Command and Staff College in Whenuapai. He also taught strategic thought for several years at the Royal New Zealand Naval College in Devonport.

 

Dr Hayward lectures throughout Europe on air power history, concepts and operational art. During the last two years alone he lectured to professional military audiences in Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Russia, Norway, Denmark and Germany. He is also an experienced and semi-regular battlefield guide. He has led British Army and Royal Air Force units on analytical tours of many European battlefields, including Arnhem, Normandy and Stalingrad.

 

Dr. Hayward’s books include a widely praised and much quoted account of the Stalingrad air war  [click red link for details],  an edited volume on jointness and the New Zealand Defence Force, and a co-authored book on New Zealand officers and their experiences of command [click red link for details].

 

Another recent book, published by the United States Navy in May 2003, is his thematic analysis of Lord Nelson's war-fighting style [click red link for details]. 

 

Dr Hayward's work-in-progress, A “Bomb and Pray” War: Explaining Yugoslavia’s Stubborn Resistance to NATO Coercion, 1999, should appear in bookstores before too long. It is a conflict-specific analysis of the military concepts known as Coercion, Deterrence and the Effects Based Approach.

 

 

 

 

 

His articles (several of them published in full here, listed in the left menu) have appeared in many of the world's leading international defence journals and magazines. He has also published various book chapters as well as articles in specialist military encyclopaedias.
 

In May 2007 three of Dr Hayward's earlier articles on German strategy and operational art were considered sufficiently meritorious to be republished by eminent English historian Professor Jeremy Black in a volume of "seminal articles" on the Second World War.

Unusually for a social scientist, he is also active in the literary arts. He has had much poetry and fiction published, including a book of short stories and a book of poetry. Both garnered excellent reviews.

 

His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including Spin,  Fresh,  Southern Ocean Review,  Chaff,  Nineteen-O-Splash,  The Mozzie and Valley Micropress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Becoming aware soon after arriving in the UK that the field of air power studies in the UK was surprisingly undeveloped, Dr Hayward initiated a series of major international air power studies conferences. These have included a very successful conference on air power and the war on terror as well as the first-ever Europe-wide gathering of air force officer cadets for academic study. The 2009 conference he is convening will focus on a critical theme that has remained entirely unexplored until now: the ecological impact of modern air power.

 

 

 

Dr Hayward and Air Marshal David Walker -- respectively the convenor and host (at centre) -- with other key conference participants at the inaugural European Air Force Officer Cadet Conference. Ramstein, Germany, October 2008.

 

 

Dr Hayward is a member of the CAS Air Power Workshop, a small working group of scholars and other theorists convened by the Chief of Air Staff (the head of the Royal Air Force). 

 

Dr. Hayward's works have been translated into German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Serbian.

 

 

CONTACT DETAILS:

Dr Joel Hayward

Dean of the Royal Air Force College

& Head of Air Power Studies, KCL 

Royal Air Force College
Cranwell
Lincolnshire NG34 8HB
United Kingdom

 

Telephone +44 (0)1400 266334
DFTS 95751 6334

Fax +44 (0)1400 266265

Email: jhayward-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk

Emails of a personal nature should be sent to joelhayward@hotmail.com

 

 

[1]. "Uni partnerships lift forces' high flyers" [click for link]  

[2]. "RAF Chief Unveils the Latest Leapon in the RAF's Inventory" Defence News, 24 August 2007. [click for link]

[3]. "A Royal Gift for the Prince" The Tribune, 15 November 1998, p. 1.

 

 

Note: This personal website site is not affiliated with King's College London, the Royal Air Force College or the Ministry of Defence. Any views expressed are Dr Hayward's only.