Saul Kelly

Saul Kelly

SAUL KELLY is Reader in International History at King’s College London. Dr Kelly specializes in British foreign policy and military history. His latest publications include Desert Dispute (Berlin: Gerlach, 2020) and Captain Gill’s Walking Stick: The True Story of theSinai Murders (London: I.B. Taurus, 2019).

LEADERSHIP IN WAR

Winston Churchill had no doubts about the importance of studying history: ‘In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.’ This includes its subset, leadership in war. Great war leaders, as Andrew Roberts points out in Leadership in War (2019),1 drawing on the examples of their predecessors, have the ability to