Associate Fellow

A serving soldier for 35 years, Colonel Martin Todd PhD commanded The Queen’s Royal Lancers and served in Iraq and Afghanistan before specialising in military strategy. He was the CHACR’s Deputy Director for three years from its establishment in 2015, before going on to become a CGS Fellow, and taking a PhD in International Politics at St John’s College, Cambridge. Since graduating, he has served as a Course Director, and then Deputy Director, of the Land Command and Staff College in Shrivenham. He was made an MBE in 2000 and received his PhD in 2023.

His Doctoral thesis examined the conceptual foundations of British strategy from 1902 to 1914, focused particularly on the roles played by the Army Staff College and the Naval War College in the years before the First World War. He retains a close interest in how historical experience can best inform contemporary policy, strategy, doctrine and professional education. He has contributed to several CHACR publications and has edited a British Army Review special edition focused on professional military education. Retiring from the Army in 2026, he hopes to spend more of his time writing, while continuing to support the Army’s conceptual component through the CHACR.