Joel Hayward's Books and Articles
Joel Hayward Scholarship: Air Power, Stalingrad and More
Joel Hayward, ZDaF, BA, MA Hons, PhD
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Dr Joel Hayward is a New Zealand-born and educated author and senior defence academic in the United Kingdom. He is best known as an air power academic. 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 colleagues also teach Royal Air Force NCOs at all levels at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire.[1]
In August 2007 the Royal Air Force 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,
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)
As an air power academic, Dr Hayward's own teaching focus is nowadays on Just War and the ethics and ecological impact of modern air power. His most recent peer-reviewed articles are: "Adding Brain to Brawn: The School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and its Impact on Air Power Thinking" [with Israeli scholar Dr Tamir Libel], Air Power Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 69-80, and "Air Power and the Environment: The Ecological Implications of Modern Air Warfare," Air Power Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn 2009), pp. 15-41. His next articles to appear will be: “Air Power, Ethics and Civilian Immunity during the Great War and its Aftermath” and “The Qur’an and War: Observations on Islamic Just War".
A traditional social democrat by inclination (and Liberal Democrats member and supporter), he supports the causes of toleration, democracy and peace and has resolved to play his part in the war against violent extremism and the scourge of terrorism. He also enjoys working in a very low-profile fashion on the enhancement of inter-faith harmony between the three great Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Dr Hayward lectures throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and beyond on air power and other strategic issues. In recent years, for example, he has addressed military audiences in Kuwait, Portugal, Ireland, Norway, Denmark and Germany (including NATO officers up to three-stars). On 13 May 2009 he lectured in Singapore at the prestigious Air Power Asia 2009 conference on: "Air Power and Ecology: Destroying Enemies but not the Environment". So far in 2010 he has spoken in London, Oman, and Jakarta and he will soon speak in Washington, DC. He also speaks as an on-camera analyst on television documentaries and programmes, most recently a German ZDF historical documentary on air power. Additionally, he provides "expert" advice in media interviews on defence and especially air power topics.
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].
In 2009 the Royal Air Force published his edited book, Air Power, Insurgency and the "War on Terror". For a free download of this book please click HERE! The Journal of Military History "strongly" recommends this collection, noting that it provides "thought provoking reading" and "much needed critical thinking" on the complex utility of air power within counter-insurgency wars [click red link to read].
Dr Hayward is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press to author what he hopes will be a pioneering new study: An Ecological History of War: The Environment Consequences of Warfare from Antiquity to the Present.
Expanding on his article, “The Qur’an and War: Observations on Islamic Just War,” he is also now at work on a major new study of warfare during the first days of Islam, to be titled: Prophet and Warrior: The Conduct and Justice of Muhammad’s Military Campaigns.
His articles (several of them published in full here; just click) 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.
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).
Some of 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.
