Christopher K Pike is an author, essayist and alumnus of the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London.

He was educated at St Clement Danes Grammar School in London and read Mechanical Engineering at Loughborough University.

He also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Manchester Business School.

A career in business strategy, teaching and practising led to an interest in military history and strategy in general, and he writes regularly on these subjects.

Much military history is either academic or ‘popular’, though no worse for that, but some of it overlooks the political context, both internationally and on the ground.

This led him to study for a Master’s in War Studies from King’s College, London, where his focus was on this political side of war and future prospects for war. His ‘options’ were Peacekeeping and Nationalism and the State.

He was elected to the Council of the Society for Army Historical Research.

He lives in London and Norfolk and is a frequent visitor to the battlefields of Europe, seeing the lie of the land and the ‘Other Side of the Hill’ for himself. A particular interest is writing strategic backgrounds for Battlefield Tour Guides.