Tim Benbow has taught international relations and strategic studies at Oxford and then spent two years at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, teaching officers from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. In 2004, he joined the Defence Studies Department of Kings College, London at the UK Defence Academy. He is the Academic Director of the Advanced Amphibious Warfare Course, the Maritime Historian on the High Command and Staff Course and is on the council of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies. He has published widely on naval issues, including most recently "Maritime forces and counter-insurgency in Contemporary Security Policy" (April 2007), and "Operation Ironclad: the British invasion of Madagascar, 1942" in Tristan Lovering (ed.) "Amphibious Assault: Manoeuvre from the Sea" (Seafarer Books, 2007).