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Geoffrey Sloan

Email:
g.r.sloan@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 7128
Job title:
Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Recruitment of MA students for all the postgraduate taught courses run by the Department

Areas of interest

Strategic studies, the development of geopolitical theory in the twentieth century
The role and function of intelligence as the "missing dimension" in international politics
The history and role of military doctrine and its relation to combat effectiveness

Research centres and groups

United Kingdom Co-ordinator, The Mackinder Forum

Academic qualifications

BA (Hons), PhD, PGCE (Keele)

Selected publications

Unpublished papers

Brititsh Command Doctrine, Command Philosophy and the Generation of Fighting Power
Haldane's Mackindergarten: A Radical Experiment in Military Education

Publications

Heuser, B. , Payne, K. , Mahnken, T. , Potter, A. , Sloan, G. , Johnson, J. , White, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-8130-3526 , Hoffman, F. (2020) Remembering Colin Gray. Texas National Security Review ISSN: 2576-1153
Sloan, G. (2020) Sir Halford Mackinder’s democratic ideals and reality: A centennial appreciation. Orbis , 64 (1). pp. 4-23. ISSN: 0030-4387 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orbis.2019.12.002

Sloan, G. (2019) The Royal Navy and organizational learning — the western approaches tactical unit and the Battle of the Atlantic. Naval War College Review , 72 (4). ISSN: 0028-1484

Sloan, G. (2018) Hide seek and negotiate: Alfred Cope and counter intelligence in Ireland 1919–1921. Intelligence and National Security , 33 (2). pp. 176-195. ISSN: 1743-9019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2017.1329118

Sloan, G. (2017) Geopolitics, geography and strategic history. Geopolitical Theory Routledge , Abingdon, UK. pp 272. ISBN: 9780714653488

Sloan, G. (2013) The British state and the Irish rebellion of 1916: an intelligence failure or an failure of response. Intelligence and National Security , 28 (4). pp. 453-494. ISSN: 1743-9019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2012.735079

Sloan, G. (2012) Military doctrine, command philosophy and the generation of fighting power: genesis and theory. International Affairs , 88 (2). pp. 243-263. ISSN: 1468-2346
Sloan, G. (2012) Haldane's Mackindergarten: a radical experiment in British military education. War in History , 19 (3). pp. 322-352. ISSN: 1477-0385 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344512440399

Gray, C. , Bath, M. , Sloan, G. , Walton, C. (2009) The Royal Navy and British security in the twenty-first century: The short game and the long game. The Naval Review , 97 (3). pp. 223-228.

Sloan, G. (2007) Dartmouth, Sir Mansfield Cumming and the origins of the British Intelligence community. Intelligence and National Security , 22 (2). pp. 298-305. ISSN: 1743-9019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520701303907
Sloan, G. (2007) Ireland and the geopolitics of Anglo-Irish relations. Irish Studies Review , 15 (2). pp. 163-179. ISSN: 1469-9303 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670880701284759