Geoffrey Till is Emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies at King’s College London and Chairman of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies.  Once Dean of Academic Studies at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College,  he is author of nearly 300 books, chapters and articles. Since 2009 he has been a Visiting Professor, Senior Research Fellow and Advisor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He held the Dudley W. Knox Chair for Naval History and Strategy at the US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island and is now a Non-Resident Research Fellow at its Hattendorf Historical Center. His Understanding Victory: Naval Operations from Trafalgar to the Falklands was published by ABC-Clio in 2014 and he completed a fourth edition of his Seapower: A Guide for the 21st Century (2018) and an edited version of Bo Hu’s Chinese Maritime Power in the 21st Century (2019). His How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power was published by Routledge in 2022. With John Hattendorf, he edited Recovering Naval Power; Henry Maydman and the Revival of the Royal Navy (Routledge, 2023). He is now working on a 5^th edition of his Seapower book.

• The Development of Navies in the International Context, with Special Interests in the Asia-Pacific Region.

• Publication of Testimony to House of Commons Defence Committee, ‘Ticking the Mission Boxes: Force Structure and the Royal Navy, May 2021
• Maritime Strategy: Current Issues and Future Development, National Defence College, Stockholm, May 2021.
• Piracy and Maritime Security: Global Perspectives, Atlantic Centre, Azores, May 2021.

Bulletins and Newsletters

• Broader Horizons (November 2016)

  30 November, 2016

IDSS Papers

• IP24042 | AUKUS: The Optimal Pathway, One Year In

  04 April, 2024

• IP23056 | Russian Maritime Power in a Long Ukraine War

  10 August, 2023

• IP23022 | Russian Maritime Strategy and the Pacific

  09 March, 2023

• IP22065 | The 2022 National Defense Strategy: Takeaways for the US Navy and Marines

  10 November, 2022

• IP22024 | Grey Zone Operations: The Rules of the Game

  05 April, 2022

RSIS Commentaries

• The Risks of Playing a Maritime Game of Chicken

  02 May, 2023

• The Coming War of Logistics

  10 March, 2022

• The Brits Are Coming: Can They Sustain It?

  04 May, 2021

• The Growing Strategic Significance of Islands

  04 November, 2019

• Brexit & Southeast Asia: Return of British Naval Presence?

  07 February, 2019

• CO16276 | Home or Away? South Korea’s New Naval Base

  08 November, 2016

Authored Books

• How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

Journal Articles

• “‘The U.S. Navy, China and Indo-Pacific: A Reset After Trump?” in Naval Review, Spring 20201, 2021
• Geoffrey Till and Henrick Z. Tsjeng, Growing Maritime Power: Issues and Challenges for Malaysia. MIMA Occasional Paper. Kuala Lumpur: MIMA, 2015.

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Maritime Cooperation and Security in the Indo-Pacific Region (with John Bradford, Jane Chan Git Yin, Stuart Kaye, and Clive Schofield), Eds. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2022

Chapters in Edited Books

• Till, Geoffrey, and Henrick Z Tsjeng. “Naval Development in Malaysia.” In Naval Modernisation in Southeast Asia: Problems and Prospects for Small and Medium Navies, edited by Geoffrey Till and Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto, pp. 77-92. Cham: Springer, 2018.