Event Details

The Centre for War and Diplomacy, Security Lancaster and the Lancaster Military Heritage Group present the Martin Edmonds Memorial Lecture.

The Martin Edmonds Memorial Lecture will be held on Wednesday 19th November 2025, 17.00-19.00 (including a reception following the lecture), in the Cavendish Lecture Theatre in the Faraday buildling on Lancaster University campus. For directions to the Lecture Theatre, please use Lancaster's Maze Map, or view the location on the PDF map.

General Sir Alexander Richard David Shirreff was born in Kenya in 1955 where he spent his early years. Educated in England, he graduated from Exeter College, Oxford (Modern History) before being commissioned into the British Army from Sandhurst. In his 37-year career, he commanded soldiers on operations at every level from platoon to division. This has included combat in the Gulf War of 1991 as a tank squadron leader and again in Iraq as a divisional commander, together with other operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Bosnia. In addition, he had extensive staff experience at brigade, Army HQ and in the Ministry of Defence. He commanded NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and his final military assignment was NATO’s 4 Star Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR). In February 2016 he co-founded Strategia Worldwide Ltd, a global risk advisory company, which has since built up a sizeable portfolio of clients across different sectors. In 2016 his novel ‘2017: War with Russia’ was published in the UK, USA and Poland. It became a best seller and has been translated into eight languages. He is an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.