William F. Owen

 

BIO

William F. Owen (Wilf) is a co-founder and the Editor of Infinity Journal. Wilf is a military technology writer and theorist currently pursuing a Masters by Research at Cranfield Defence and Security, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He speaks and presents to military audiences on a wide range of subjects, including among others,  the Royal Thai Army Counter Insurgency Conference, Bangkok 2006, Australian Army Land Warfare Conference, Brisbane 2007, Israeli Air Force Annual Conference 2010, International Conference on Democracies and the Right of Self-Defence 2011, and the U.S. Army War College's Annual Strategy Conference 2012 Wilf has served in both regular and reserve units of the British Army. 

 

PUBLICATIONS

“To Be Clausewitzian”, Infinity Journal Special Edition, Clausewitz and Contemporary Conflict, February 2012, pages 20-23

"Targeted Killings: A Modern Strategy of the State", A.E. Stahl and William F. Owen), Michigan War Studies Review, July 2011.

"The British Army and its Preparedness for Expeditionary Operations," Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Defence Systems, 12 Aug 2011, page 42-44.

"Killing Your Way to Control," The British Army Review, No. 151, Spring 2011, pages 34-37.

"Back to Basics. What the British Army should learn from the 2nd Lebanon War," The British Army Review, No. 150.

"The Possible Superiority of Symmetric Warfare”, British Army Review, No. 135, Autumn 2005.

“Contrived and Confused," The British Army Review, No. 153

“The Forgotten Apostle of Battle Drill”, The British Army Review, No. 136, 2004.

“Sky Wars”, British Army Review

“The Manoeuvre Warfare Fraud”, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Vol. 153, No. 4, Aug 2008

“True But Irrelevant”, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Defence Systems, February 2010

“Alice In Warminster”, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Defence Systems, June 2009

“Replacement vehicle or new capability?”Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Defence Systems, July 2004

“The Universal Infantry”, Australian Army Journal, Volume VII, Number 3, Summer 2010

“Patrol Based Infantry Doctrine”, Infantry Magazine, January-February 2006

“The War of New Words”, Armed Forces Journal, November 2009