Horwood, Ian

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Horwood, Ian

Email:

I.HORWOOD@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy

Organisation:

York St John University

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Expertise:

Air-Power History, Military History, The wars in Indochina, US History (20 & 21C), US Politics (20 & 21C), Media & History

Job title:

Senior Lecturer

Biography:

Dr Ian Horwood is Senior Lecturer in History, American Studies and War Studies in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy at York St John University. His research interests include inter-service rivalry, airmobility, the dynamics of insurgency, concentration and asymmetry in air combat, and inter-war gaming, especially of naval aviation. He is a member of the York Historical War Analysis Group (YHWAG), a collaboration of mathematicians and historians from the Universities of York and York St John, with interests spanning 20th century international and military history, operations research, and warfare analysis.

Qualifications:

PhD history,University of Leeds, 2001; MA history, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, 1993; BA (Hons) politics and modern history, University of Manchester, 1985.

My Latest

Horwood, Ian (2025) What is the value of US security guarantees? Here’s what history shows. The Conversation.
Horwood, Ian and Price, Christopher (2025) Strained Sinews of War: The Commonwealth and the Air Campaign in the Korean War. International History Review.
Fagan, Brennen, Horwood, Ian, MacKay, Niall, Price, Christopher and Wood, Jamie (2023) Quantifying Counterrfactual Military History. Routledge
Horwood, Ian (2020) Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Responses to a New Technology, 1903–1939, by Lori A. Henning [Book Review]. Oxford University Press.
Horwood, Ian and Price, Christopher (2021) 'A Fundamental Weapon': The Transatlantic Air Power Controversy of the Early 1920s and the US Navy as a Learning Organisation. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 19 (1). pp. 4-26.
Horwood, Ian (2019) ‘The fourth dimension of warfare: Early techno-thriller fiction and the manned bomber vs. missile controversy of the early 1960s’. In: Faria, Dominique, Dobson, Alan, Monteiro, Antonio and Rodrigues, Luis Nuno, (eds.) L'aviation et son impact sur le temps et espace. First ed. Exotopies . Paris, Le Manuscrit, pp. 305-330
Fagan, Brennen, Horwood, Ian, MacKay, Niall, Price, Christopher, Richards, Ed and Wood, A. Jamie (2020) Bootstrapping the Battle of Britain. Journal of Military History, 84 (1). pp. 151-186.
Horwood, Ian (2018) As a Conservative, John McCain was in a Class of His Own | Opinion. Newsweek.
Horwood, Ian (2017) 'The development of airpower roles and missions in the First World War “Biggles” stories of Captain W.E. Johns’. In: de Almeida, Jose Domingues, Faria, Dominique, Outeirinho, Maria de Fatima and Monteiro, Antonio, (eds.) Aviateurs-écrivains: Témoins de l’histoire. First ed. Exotopies . Paris, Le Manuscrit, pp. 147-165
Horwood, Ian, MacKay, Niall and Price, Christopher (2014) Concentration and Asymmetry in Air Combat: Lessons for the Defensive employment of Air Power. Air Power Review, 17 (2). pp. 68-91.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Bootstrapping the Battle of Britain	564	12
2	'A Fundamental Weapon': The Transatlantic Air Power Controversy of the Early 1920s and the US Navy as a Learning Organisation	144	93
3	As a Conservative, John McCain was in a Class of His Own \| Opinion	140
4	'The development of airpower roles and missions in the First World War “Biggles” stories of Captain W.E. Johns’	112	5
5	‘The fourth dimension of warfare: Early techno-thriller fiction and the manned bomber vs. missile controversy of the early 1960s’	106	11
6	Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Responses to a New Technology, 1903–1939, by Lori A. Henning [Book Review]	60	38
7	Strained Sinews of War: The Commonwealth and the Air Campaign in the Korean War	18	4
8	What is the value of US security guarantees? Here’s what history shows	4