Charles Knight

Biography

Dr Charles Knight is a senior operations analyst conducting wargaming for land capability. He has an enduring interest in urban warfare, sparked by being tasked to prepare his UK Parachute Regiment unit to defend the German city of Hildesheim against the Soviets in the 1980s. His PhD examined coercion during counterinsurgency, and as a university lecturer he taught subjects including strategic security, unconventional/asymmetric warfare, and terrorism. He remains affiliated with Charles Sturt University and the Theresian Military Academy in Austria. His research is informed by fieldwork during the Lebanese civil war and in Cambodia, as well as by operational service with several overseas militaries. In Australia he commanded 2/17RNSWR, served for over a decade with the Special Forces, and as a reservist is the SO1 Urban in the AARC.

Contributions

Title	Date Published
Sexuality, Cohesion, Masculinity and Combat Motivation: Designing Personnel Policy to Sustain Capability	1 Oct 2013
Urban Warfare Capability: A Call for Professional Debate	31 Aug 2018
Urban Warfare Capability: A Background to the Challengesand a Call for Professional Debate	1 Jan 2019
The Poised Force: Latency and Preparedness for Accelerated Warfare	6 Aug 2019
Seize, defy and discredit: a potent asymmetric strategy	10 Sep 2019
The Urban Challenge	5 Dec 2019
The Marawi Crisis – Urban Conflict & Information Operations - Dr Charles Knight & Katja Theodorakis	16 Dec 2019
Analysing the Urban Attack: Insights from Soviet doctrine as a ‘model checklist’	4 Mar 2020
Rethinking Urban War for an Army in Motion: introducing the challenge	11 Mar 2020
Interactive Scenario: Concept for Clearing Hobart	11 Mar 2020
Swiss Military Cost-Effectiveness in the Cold-War: Insights for Land Capability	17 Jun 2020
Tailored Capability and Modest Competencies: the U.K.’s Cold War Territorial Army as a cost-effective model for Australian Army expansion?	15 Dec 2020
Urban Warfare: A Practitioners Annotated Bibliography	26 Nov 2021
Urban Warfare: A Practitioner’s Annotated Bibliography	29 Nov 2021
Book Review - Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century	1 Jul 2023
‘Holding the Door Open’ – Securing a Point of Entry to Facilitate Littoral Manoeuvre in the Near Region’ - Part Three	19 Oct 2023
‘Holding the Door Open’ – Securing a Point of Entry to Facilitate Littoral Manoeuvre in the Near Region’ - Part Four	24 Oct 2023
‘Holding the Door Open’ – Securing a Point of Entry to Facilitate Littoral Manoeuvre in the Near Region’ - Part Five	21 Nov 2023
Book Review - Battle of the Cities	12 Dec 2024