20 Facts About Hew Strachan

Hew Strachan is currently professor of international relations at the University of St Andrews.

Hew Strachan was educated at Rugby School, then in 1968 was a merchant seaman for three months, working his passage around the world on ships of Ben Line Steamers Ltd.

Hew Strachan became admissions tutor and then senior tutor of Corpus Christi College, and in 1992 was elected a life fellow.

Hew Strachan was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow from 1992 to 2000, then migrated to Oxford as Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls.

Hew Strachan was director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War from 2004 to 2015, and published a series of important articles on strategy, as well as editing books which have arisen from the project.

Hew Strachan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Historical Society.

Hew Strachan was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Tweeddale in 2006.

Hew Strachan is a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies.

Hew Strachan was on the council of the National Army Museum and is currently a trustee of the Imperial War Museum.

Hew Strachan is a visiting professor of the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy in Trondheim and in 2009 was the Sir Howard Kippenberger Professor at Victoria University Wellington.

Hew Strachan sits on the advisory board of the Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University.

From 20 May 2014 to 28 August 2024, Hew Strachan served as Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale, in succession to Captain David Bingham Younger.

Hew Strachan tirelessly encouraged others, both inside academia and out.

Hew Strachan's impact produces histories of the Great War that are global and multi-dimensional, while rooted in the detail of military operations.

Hew Strachan is editor of the Great Battles series published by Oxford University Press.

In January 2014, Hew Strachan told The Daily Beast that President Barack Obama's failures in Afghanistan and Syria have shown that he is "chronically incapable" of military strategy.

Hew Strachan was knighted in the 2013 New Years Honours List for services to the Ministry of Defence.

Hew Strachan was appointed as the Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale on 7 June 2014 by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

In July 2017, Hew Strachan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

In 2018, Hew Strachan received the Morison Prize from The Society for Military History.