ANDREW DORMAN is Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, Joint Service Command and Staff College, and a Research Assistant at the Security Studies Research Programme, University of Birmingham. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College Greenwich, and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. MIKE LAWRENCE SMITH is Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London. Formerly he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Between 1992 and 1995 he was Lecturer in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. MATTHEW UTTLEY is Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) and Director of the JSCSC Defence Technology Research Group. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Economics at the University of York and the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies, Lancaster University.