Dr Anna Maria Brudenell
Lecturer in Security Studies
Location: Wellington Hall, Shrivenham
E: a.m.brudenell@cranfield.ac.uk
T: 01793 785 957
Department of Management and Security
Current activities
Dr. Anna Maria Brudenell is the Course Director for the International Security MSc.
Her research interests include:
• Strategic targeting of enemy leaders (Axiological Targeting)
• Effects Based Operations
• Air Power in Operation ALLIED FORCE
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Asymmetric Warfare
• Conflict Analysis
Dr. Brudenell has presented papers at the following conferences:
• Information Operations and Influence Activity Symposium, Defence Capability Centre, Defence Academy, 5-6 March 2008;
• Air Power and Strategy: Challenges for the 21st Century, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy, 12-13 June 2008.
Clients
The Ministry of Defence
Background
Dr. Anna Maria Brudenell received her BA in East European History from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, and her Ph.D. on the air campaign in Kosovo from the Royal Military College of Science (Cranfield University). She has a wide range of experience working in various International Organisations, such as the IAEA, the UN and NATO HQ, and has lived in Vienna, Prague and Brussels. She joined the Security Studies Institute in February 2006 (renamed CISR). Her primary area of interest within the centre is air power, with particular reference to Axiological Targeting.
Selected publications
Chapters in Books:
• “Strategic Attack: Making it Short, Sharp and not so Sweet”, Conference Proceedings from Air Power Conference: Air Power and Strategic: Challenges for the 21st Century, June 2008
Books in Preparation:
• Eight Months on Active Service;
• The Diplomacy of Coercion: Air Power in Kosovo
Academic Articles:
• “What Causes Milosevic to Capitulate?”, The British Army Review, Number 139, Spring 2006, pp. 74-80;
• “Russia’s Role in Kosovo Conflict 1999”, RUSI Journal, Volume 153, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 30-34;
• “Lessons in Leadership: The Battle of Balaklava, 1854”, Military Review, March-April 2008, pp. 74-84;
• “Hitting where it Hurts – Axiological Targeting”, JAPCC Journal, Edition 9, 2009, pp. 10-13.
