We are pleased to welcome Dr Rob Johnson back as Director of CCW. In 2022 Rob was appointed as the Director of the Secretary of State for Defence’s Office of Net Assessment and Challenge (SONAC). He has been working on secondment to the MOD for the last 2 years. During this time of global instability, Rob has been in a position to significantly influence defence strategy at the highest level.

As Rob returns with new insights and experiences, CCW will evolve its focus on the character and nature of armed conflict towards strategy, statecraft and the impact of technological change. The Centre will rebrand as the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW).

We continue to be highly interdisciplinary and will forge new links within the fields of History, Politics, International Relations, Law, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy while working with our global partners.

SST-CCW would like to thank Lord John Alderdice for his support over the last 2 years, overseeing the Centre as Executive Chairman. Lord Alderdice will step down from this position at the end of June but will continue to support SST-CCW as an Advisor and also as an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College.