Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson

Current Role:

Departmental Lecturer in the History of War, Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University. Rob Johnson joined the CCW team at the start of the 2008-09 academic year. His primary research interests are wars in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and South West Asia, including conventional operations, guerrilla war and counter-insurgency and strategy. He also teaches more broadly on the History of War and Military History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Rob Johnson has long been involved in research into the British Army in the period 1837-1982, and has been particularly interested in the soldiers of Oxfordshire who served on various colonial campaigns and in the two world wars. He is enthusiastic about introducing undergraduates and postgraduates of Oxford University to the SOFO project.

Recent Publications:

•    Tirah, 1897, by C.E. Callwell, with a new introduction by Rob Johnson (Williamsburg, VA.: 2010)
•    Pulverfass im Hindukusch (Reaktion, 2008)
•    Lessons in Imperial Rule: Instructions for Infantrymen on the Indian Frontier (London: Greenhill, 2008)
•    Oil, Islam and Conflict in Central Asia since 1945 (London: Reaktion, 2007)
•    Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia 1757-1947 (London: Greenhill, 2006)
•    A Region in Turmoil: South Asian Conflicts Since 1947 (London: Reaktion, 2005)

http://ccw.modhist.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/johnson.asp