David Murphy (BA, MLitt, PhD).
Dr Davis Murphy is a graduate of University College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. He currently works as a lecturer in military history and strategic studies at Maynooth University in Ireland. He has also lectured abroad at various institutions including the Dutch Military Academy in Breda, West Point Military Academy, South African Military Academy in Saldanha, and the US Command and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. In 2018 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is currently a visiting fellow at the Changing Character of Warfare Centre, University of Oxford. His published works include Breaking Point of the French army: the Nivelle Offensive of 1917 (2015) and Lawrence of Arabia (2011) among others. He is a member of the Royal United Services Institute and is an external examiner for the Department of Defence Studies of King’s College, London (UK Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham). In 2004 he became the first Irish scholar to be awarded a fellowship to the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History.