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Battlefields Trust Online Lecture: The British Resistance Organisation 1940

Wednesday 4th May 2022

Cutting Edge Delivery at the Time - Model for the Present

Robert's talk is on the ‘British Resistance Organisation’ consisting of the Auxiliary Units and the Special Duties Sections. These units were novel concepts of their time which overlapped with later Commando and Special Forces and their skillsets were exported around the globe. Their concept and capabilities continued through the cold war and are still in use today in Eastern Europe.

Robert Shaw is an accredited Battlefield tour guide and is currently writing a C-IED manual for the UN and military history books on the SAS, SOE and the Cold War. He retired from the British Army where he worked in the fields of IEDD and intelligence, working for UKSF and DIS. He subsequently managed training for the UN and NATO in Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, Nigeria and Somalia. His battlefield tour expertise and experience includes the American Civil War, WW1, WW2 and the Cold War in UK, USA, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sicily, Crete, the Baltic States, Ukraine, Poland and the Balkans. Robert has a Master’s degree in Global Security from Cranfield University and lectures at UCL on intelligence and defence matters and counter proliferation.

 
 

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