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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p>Die <b>Lees Knowles Lectures</b> sind eine öffentliche <a href="Vorlesung" title="Vorlesung">Vorlesungsreihe</a> für <a href="Milit%C3%A4rgeschichte" title="Militärgeschichte">Militärgeschichte</a> am <a href="Trinity_College_(Cambridge)" title="Trinity College (Cambridge)">Trinity College</a> der <a href="University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Profil">Profil</h2></div>

<p>Sie wurde 1912 zur Förderung der <a href="Milit%C3%A4rwissenschaft" title="Militärwissenschaft">Militärwissenschaften</a> gegründet und richtet sich in erster Linie an <a href="Milit%C3%A4rgeschichte" title="Militärgeschichte">Militär</a>-, <a href="Politische_Geschichte" title="Politische Geschichte">Politik</a>- und <a href="Sozialgeschichte" title="Sozialgeschichte">Sozialhistoriker</a>, aber auch an eine breitere Öffentlichkeit. Gründer war der britische Militärhistoriker Lees Knowles. Es waren bedeutende britische Persönlichkeiten in Cambridge zu Gast, anfangs vor allem Offizier, heute überwiegend <a href="Marinegeschichte" title="Marinegeschichte">Marine</a>- und Militärhistoriker. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts unregelmäßig, finden seit den 1970er Jahren die Lesungen zweijährlich statt. Erster Lecturer war Sir <a href="Julian_Corbett" title="Julian Corbett">Julian Corbett</a> (1915).

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lecturer">Lecturer</h2></div>

<ul><li>1915: Sir <a href="Julian_Corbett" title="Julian Corbett">Julian Corbett</a>: The Great War after Trafalgar</li>

<li>1922: Colonel Maxwell Earle: The principal strategical problems affecting the British Empire</li>

<li>1923: Colonel Maxwell Earle: The principles of war</li>

<li>1924: Colonel M.A. Wingfield: The eight principles of war as exemplified in the Palestine campaign, 1915–1918</li>

<li>1924: Lieutenant Colonel F.P. Nosworthy: Russia before, during and after the Great War</li>

<li>1925: Major General Sir <a href="Frederick_Maurice" title="Frederick Maurice">Frederick Maurice</a>: Statesmen and soldiers in the American civil war</li>

<li>1927: Major General Sir Wilkinson Bird: Some early crises of the war, and the events leading up to them: Western Front 1914</li>

<li>1928: Major General Sir George Aston: Problems of empire defence</li>

<li>1929: A.R. Hinks: Frontiers and boundary delimitations</li>

<li>1930: <a href="William_Woodthorpe_Tarn" title="William Woodthorpe Tarn">William Woodthorpe Tarn</a>: Hellenistic military developments</li>

<li>1931: Admiral Sir <a href="Herbert_Richmond" title="Herbert Richmond">Herbert Richmond</a>: Capture at sea in war</li>

<li>1932: Captain <a href="Basil_Liddell_Hart" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Liddell Hart">Basil Liddell Hart</a>: The movement of military thought from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and its influence on European history</li>

<li>1933: <a href="John_Buchan%2C_1._Baron_Tweedsmuir" title="John Buchan, 1. Baron Tweedsmuir">John Buchan, 1. Baron Tweedsmuir</a>: Oliver Cromwell as a soldier</li>

<li>1934: Air Commodore Lionel Charlton: Military aeronautics applied to modern warfare</li>

<li>1936: C.R.M.F. Cruttwell: The role of British strategy in the Great War</li>

<li>1937: General Sir <a href="Edmund_Ironside%2C_1._Baron_Ironside" title="Edmund Ironside, 1. Baron Ironside">Edmund Ironside, 1. Baron Ironside</a>: British military history from 1899 to the present</li>

<li>1939: General Sir <a href="Archibald_Wavell%2C_1._Earl_Wavell" title="Archibald Wavell, 1. Earl Wavell">Archibald Wavell, 1. Earl Wavell</a>: Generalship</li>

<li>1940: General Sir <a href="Frederick_Maurice" title="Frederick Maurice">Frederick Maurice</a>: Public opinion in war</li>

<li>1941: Captain <a href="Cyril_Falls" title="Cyril Falls">Cyril Falls</a>: The nature of modern warfare</li>

<li>1942: Major General Sir <a href="George_Lindsay" class="mw-disambig" title="George Lindsay">George Lindsay</a>: War on the civil and military fronts</li>

<li>1946: Colonel A.H. Burne: Military strategy as exemplified in World War II</li>

<li>1947: Air Marshal <a href="Arthur_Tedder%2C_1._Baron_Tedder" title="Arthur Tedder, 1. Baron Tedder">Arthur Tedder, 1. Baron Tedder</a>: Air power in modern warfare</li>

<li>1948: Admiral Sir William James: The influence of sea power upon the history of the British people</li>

<li>1949: Sir Ronald Weeks: Organisation and equipment for war</li>

<li>1950: Sir <a href="Henry_Tizard" title="Henry Tizard">Henry Tizard</a>: The influence of war on science</li>

<li>1951: General Sir <a href="William_Platt" title="William Platt">William Platt</a>: The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940–1 / Captain G.H. Roberts: The battles of the Atlantic</li>

<li>1952: Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill: Some human factors in war</li>

<li>1953: Sir <a href="Fitzroy_Maclean" title="Fitzroy Maclean">Fitzroy Maclean</a>: Irregular warfare</li>

<li>1954: General Sir <a href="Brian_Horrocks" title="Brian Horrocks">Brian Horrocks</a>: Are we training for the last war?</li>

<li>1956: <a href="Patrick_Maynard_Stuart_Blackett" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett">Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett</a>: Atomic weapons, 1945–1955</li>

<li>1957: <a href="John_Ehrman" title="John Ehrman">John Ehrman</a>: Cabinet government and war, 1890–1940</li>

<li>1958: Field Marshal <a href="John_Harding%2C_1._Baron_Harding_of_Petherton" title="John Harding, 1. Baron Harding of Petherton">John Harding, 1. Baron Harding of Petherton</a>: Mediterranean strategy in the 2nd World War / Sir Leslie Rowan: Arms and economics: the changing challenge</li>

<li>1960: Captain Stephen Roskill: Maritime strategy in the twentieth century</li>

<li>1961: Field Marshal <a href="William_Slim%2C_1._Viscount_Slim" title="William Slim, 1. Viscount Slim">William Slim, 1. Viscount Slim</a>: The military mind and the spirit of an army</li>

<li>1962: Lieutenant General Sir <a href="John_Winthrop_Hackett_Junior" title="John Winthrop Hackett Junior">John Winthrop Hackett Junior</a>: The profession of arms</li>

<li>1963: <a href="Noble_Frankland" title="Noble Frankland">Noble Frankland</a>: The strategic air offensive</li>

<li>1965: Sir <a href="Solly_Zuckerman" title="Solly Zuckerman">Solly Zuckerman</a>: Science and military affairs</li>

<li>1966: <a href="Michael_Howard_(Historiker)" title="Michael Howard (Historiker)">Michael Howard</a>: Conduct of British strategy in the 2nd World War</li>

<li>1968: <a href="Reginald_Victor_Jones" title="Reginald Victor Jones">Reginald Victor Jones</a>: Command</li>

<li>1969: Alastair Buchan: The changing functions of military force in international politics</li>

<li>1970: Geoffrey Best: Conscience and the conduct of war, from the French Revolution through the Franco-Prussian war</li>

<li>1971: <a href="Harry_Hinsley" title="Harry Hinsley">Harry Hinsley</a>: War and the development of the international system</li>

<li>1972: John Erickson: Soviet soldiers and Soviet society</li>

<li>1973: Piers Mackesy: Problems of an amphibious power 1795–1808</li>

<li>1974: <a href="Donald_Cameron_Watt" title="Donald Cameron Watt">Donald Cameron Watt</a>: European armed forces and the approach of the 2nd World War 1933–39 / <a href="Hermann_Bondi" title="Hermann Bondi">Hermann Bondi</a>: Science and defence</li>

<li>1975: R.L. Clutterbuck: Guerilla warfare and political violence</li>

<li>1977: Christopher Thorne: Anglo-American relations and war against Japan 1941–45</li>

<li>1979: Field Marshal <a href="Michael_Carver%2C_Baron_Carver" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Carver, Baron Carver">Michael Carver, Baron Carver</a>: Apostles of mobility</li>

<li>1981: <a href="Laurence_Martin" title="Laurence Martin">Laurence Martin</a>: Evolution of nuclear strategic doctrine since 1945</li>

<li>1983: <a href="Alistair_Horne" title="Alistair Horne">Alistair Horne</a>: The French army and politics 1870–1970</li>

<li>1985: <a href="Geoffrey_Parker_(Milit%C3%A4rhistoriker)" title="Geoffrey Parker (Militärhistoriker)">Geoffrey Parker</a>: European warfare 1520–1660</li>

<li>1986: <a href="John_Keegan" title="John Keegan">John Keegan</a>: Some fallacies of military history</li>

<li>1989: <a href="Alan_K._Bowman" title="Alan K. Bowman">Alan K. Bowman</a>: Vindolanda and the Roman Army: New documents from the northern frontier</li>

<li>1990: <a href="Maurice_Keen" title="Maurice Keen">Maurice Keen</a>: English military experience, c.1340 – c.1450</li>

<li>1992: <a href="William_Hardy_McNeill" title="William Hardy McNeill">William Hardy McNeill</a>: Dance, drill and bonding in human affairs</li>

<li>1995: <a href="Hew_Strachan" title="Hew Strachan">Hew Strachan</a>: The politics of the British Army 1815–1914</li>

<li>1996: Field Marshal Sir <a href="Peter_Inge%2C_Baron_Inge" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Inge, Baron Inge">Peter Inge, Baron Inge</a>: Military force in a changing world</li>

<li>1998: <a href="Keith_Jeffery" title="Keith Jeffery">Keith Jeffery</a>: ‘For the freedom of small nations’: Ireland and the Great War</li>

<li>2000: <a href="Brian_Bond" title="Brian Bond">Brian Bond</a>: Britain and the First World War: The challenge to historians</li>

<li>2002: <a href="Antony_Beevor" title="Antony Beevor">Antony Beevor</a>: The experience of war</li>

<li>2004: David Parrott: War, Armies, and Politics in Early Modern Europe: The Military Devolution, 1560–1660</li>

<li>2006: Ben Shephard: What Makes a Soldier? And What Does Not?</li>

<li>2008: <a href="Peter_Paret" title="Peter Paret">Peter Paret</a>: 1806: The Cognitive Challenge of War</li>

<li>2010: <a href="Andrew_Roberts" title="Andrew Roberts">Andrew Roberts</a>: The creation of Anglo-American grand strategy 1941–45 / <a href="Nicholas_Rodger" title="Nicholas Rodger">Nicholas Rodger</a>: The British Navy in the Second World War / <a href="Richard_Overy" title="Richard Overy">Richard Overy</a>: Air Power in the Second World War: A War Winner? / <a href="Max_Hastings" title="Max Hastings">Max Hastings</a>: The British Army in the Second World War</li>

<li>2012: Amir Weiner: Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework</li>

<li>2014: <a href="Ahmed_Rashid" title="Ahmed Rashid">Ahmed Rashid</a> / Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles / <a href="Rory_Stewart" title="Rory Stewart">Rory Stewart</a> / Anatol Lieven: 'Games Great and Small: Afghanistan in the Modern World'</li>

<li>2016: <a href="James_Howard-Johnston" title="James Howard-Johnston">James Howard-Johnston</a>: The Byzantine Art of War</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Siehe_auch">Siehe auch</h2></div>

<ul><li>Birkbeck Lectures</li>

<li>Clark Lectures</li>

<li>Tarner Lectures</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>

<ul><li><a href="Brian_Bond" title="Brian Bond">Brian Bond</a>: <i>The Unquiet Western Front. Britain's Role in Literature and History</i>. Cambridge University Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-521-80995-9, S. 105 ff.</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/about/public-lecture-series/lees-knowles/">Past Lees Knowles Lectures</a> am <a href="Trinity_College_(Cambridge)" title="Trinity College (Cambridge)">Trinity College</a></li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

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