Matthew Ford
Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
- Matthew.Ford@fhs.se
- +48 8-55342697
- Department of War Studies
- Strategy Division
- War Studies
About Matthew
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Matthew Ford is an academic focusing on war and the data-saturated battlefields of the 21st century.
Matthew's third book entitled, "War in the Smartphone Age Smartphone" will be published by Hurst & Co, London and Oxford University Press, New York in May 2025.
His previous book - Radical War (Hurst & Co, London and Oxford University Press, New York 2022) - with Professor Andrew Hoskins from Edinburgh University traces war’s data trajectories, from the epicentres of battle out to distant parts of the world, into history, memory and as it is memed into the platforms that mediate digital culture.
Matthew's first book, 'Weapon of Choice - Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation', is an analysis of military innovation and culture and was published by Hurst & Co, London and Oxford University Press, New York in 2017.
Matthew is an Honorary Historical Consultant to the Royal Armouries (UK), the founding Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal for Military History, a former West Point Fellow and in 2019 was a Visiting Scholar at the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.
Latest publications
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From forgetting to institutional failure : The army as a non-learning organizationPart of Ground Truth The Moral Component in Contemporary British Warfare
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From innovation to participation : connectivity and the conduct of contemporary warfarePart of International Affairs
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Le smartphone sur le champ de bataille : la nouvelle écologie guerrièrePart of Cultures & Conflits
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The crisis in the palm of our handPart of International Affairs