Hew Strachan
| Hew Strachan link IMDB (Historian) | |
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| Born | 1 September 1949 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Nationality | UK |
| Alma mater | Rugby School, Corpus Christi College Cambridge |
| Interests | World War I |
Military historian with an active interest in the amount of UK defence spending. Institute for Statecraft advisor. | |
Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan is a UK military historian. He was one of three advisors of the Institute for Statecraft listed on their website until they took it down in 2019.[1]
Activities
In 2017, Strachan co-signed An Open Letter On Defence with Chris Donnelly.[2]
"He is a member of the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel, the Defence Academy Advisory Board, and the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and has been a specialist advisor to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the National Security Strategy in the recently dissolved Parliament. He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner, and serves on the both the United Kingdom’s and Scotland’s national advisory panels for the centenary of the First World War."[3]