Neil McLennan is Senior Lecturer and Director of Leadership Programmes at University of Aberdeen where he is also an Associate at the Centre for Global Security and Governance. He is a former history teacher and past president of the Scottish History Teachers Association. He has lectured to Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Group on leadership models and values-based leadership. He researches and writes extensively on First World War history.
Leadership Lessons from the past: Operation Market Garden, 1944 By Neil McLennan This week is the anniversary of Operation Market Garden, a bold plan by British military leader, Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery. The military operation could have brought the Second War to an end a year early. The plan was to advance at speed…
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts Reviewed by Neil McLennan Andrew Roberts’ Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History (Allen Lane, 2019) offers readers a range of lessons drawn from nine case studies. Two case studies are from the Napoleonic Wars (Napoleon and Nelson); six from the…
