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Annual Defence Lecture

This annual lecture is held in association with the Naval and Military Club. The usual format of the event is a lecture at Chatham House, followed by drinks and dinner at the Naval and Military Club, No 4 St James's Square, for a small fee.

Past Events

Thursday 18 September 2008
Britain's Armed Forces: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future

Speaker: Sir Max Hastings, Author and Commentator; Editor and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Telegraph (1986-95)

Thursday 20 September 2007
War and Strategy

Speaker: Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford

Thursday 21 September 2006
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

Speaker: General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM, Former Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe 1998-2001; author of The Utility of Force: The art of War in the Modern World.

Thursday 22 September 2005
Iraq; Dealing with the Hangover of Liberation

Speaker: Colonel Tim Collins OBE, Lieutenant Colonel with 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment.

Monday 13 September 2004
Defence in the Age of Terrorism

Speaker: The Rt Hon Nicholas Soames MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.

Wednesday 24 September 2003
Germany, Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship in a Changing World

Speaker: HE Mr Thomas Matussek, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Court of St James's.

Thursday 19 September 2002
September 11 - Defence one Year on

Speaker: General Sir Mike Jackson KCB CBE DSO ADC GEN, Commander-in-Chief, Land Command and Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen; Colonel Commandant, Parachute Regiment. This lecture was held under the Chatham House Rule.

Thursday 27 September 2001
European Defence

Speaker: Sir Michael Quinlan GCB, Director, The Ditchley Foundation, 1992-99; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1988-92.