Close Air Support and the Battlefield

Harry Raffal is the Head of Collections and Research at the Royal Air Force Museum. He holds a doctorate from the University of Hull for his thesis on the operations of the RAF and Luftwaffe during the evacuation of Dunkirk. He is a Committee member of the RAF Historical Society and the British Commission for Military History, and is the Vice-Chair of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Aeronautical Heritage Group. He has previously published research on the RAF in the Battle of France, the Third Afghan War and the online development of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces.

John Alexander specialised in co-ordinating air/land operations as a Royal Air Force officer, in the Falklands, various Middle Eastern campaigns, and Afghanistan. A Chief of the Air Staff Fellow at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, he has conceptualised warfare for the RAF, UK MOD and NATO, and published award-winning research in the RUSI Journal, Air and Space Power Review, and Asian Affairs.