Professor Eric Grove

Professor of Naval History and Director, Centre For International Security and War Studies

• Crescent House 403b
• T: 0161 295 2592
• E: e.grove@salford.ac.uk

Monday 2.00pm - 4.00pm

After studying at Aberdeen University and Kings College, London Eric Grove became a civilian lecturer at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1971 and left at the end of 1984 as Deputy Head of Strategic Studies. After a short period with the Council for Arms Control he became a self employed strategic analyst and defence consultant, teaching at The Royal Naval College Greenwich and the University of Cambridge and working with the Foundation for International Security. Under the latter’s auspices in 1988, he founded the Russia-UK-US naval discussions and confidence building talks that, with the addition of France, still continue. He was also involved in facilitating and organising east-west talks on counter terrorism. In 1993 he joined the University of Hull where he became Reader in Politics and International Studies and Director of the Centre for Security Studies. He also received a PhD for his published works. In 2005 he joined the University of Salford. Professor Grove is a He frequently appears on radio and television. Professor Grove  is regarded as a leading world expert on naval history and contemporary maritime security. He is also in great demand as a media commentator on the wider security agenda including terrorism.

Sea Power (Level 5); Technology, Warfare and Strategy ( Level 6);  Contemporary Maritime Security (Level M)

Also contributor to the Level 4 courses in Military and International History

PhD supervisor in modern naval history and international security studies. 

Naval history, 1880 – present, especially history of the Royal Navy; contemporary maritime strategy;  British nuclear history; contemporary security issues.

MA (Hons) History University of Aberdeen; MA War Studies Kings College, University of London; Doctor of Philosophy Security Studies, University of Hull.

Vice President of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, a Member of the British Commissions for Military and Maritime History and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Books

Grove, E.J., Vanguard to Trident: British Naval Policy Since1945, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 1987, 487pp

Grove E.J.and Windass S., Crucible of Peace, Brassey’s, London, 1988

Grove E.J.(Ed.), Sir Julian Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1988 

Grove E.J., The Future of Sea Power, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1990, 280pp

Grove E.J., Maritime Strategy and European Security , Brassey’s London, 1990

Grove E.J., Sea Battles in Close-up, World War Two , Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1990.

Grove E.J., Battle For The Fiords, The Forward Maritime Strategy In Action, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1991

Grove E.J. (Ed.), Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1991

Grove E.J., Fleet to Fleet Encounters; Tsushima, Jutland, Philippine Sea, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1993

Grove E.J. (Ed.), Great Battles of the Royal Navy, Cassell, London, 1994

Grove E.J. (Ed.), Peter Dickens, Narvik, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1996

Grove E.J. (Ed.), The Battle and the Breeze, The Naval Reminiscences of Admiral of the fleet Sir Edward Ashmore, Sutton, Thrupp, 1997

Grove E.J. (Ed), The Defeat of the Enemy Attack Upon Shipping, Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, Vol 137, 1997

Grove E.J. and Ireland B., Jane’s War at Sea 1897-1997, Harper Collins, London, 1997

Grove E.J. and Hore P. (Eds.) The Dynamics of Sea Power; Global Strategic Change In the Modern World, Hull University Press, 1998

Grove E.J., The Price of Disobedience, The Battle of the River Plate Reconsidered, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2001 182pp

Grove E.J., The Royal Navy Since1815, A New Short History, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005 285pp

Book chapters

‘The Fleet Comes Home, the Royal Navy Since 1945’ in M Edmonds (Ed.) The Military Equation, Brassey’s, London, 1986

With G. Till, ‘Anglo-American Maritime Strategy after 1945’ in J Hattendorf and R.S Jordan, Maritime Strategies of the Great Powers, Macmillan, 1988

‘Seapower’ in R. Carey and T.Salmon, (Eds.) International  Security In the Modern World, Macmillan, 1992

‘Naval Technology and Security’ in W.A.Smit, J.Grin and L.Voronkov, Military Technological  Innovation and Stability in a  Changing World, University Press, Amsterdam, 1992

‘La Pensee Naval Britannique Depuis Colomb’ in H. Couteau Begarie, L’Evolution De La Pensee Navale II, Fondation Pour Les Etudes de Defense Nationale, Paris, 1992

‘Confidence Building Measures at Sea : An Alternative to Naval Arms Control’ in A. Mack, A Peaceful Ocean?, Maritime Security in the  Pacific in the Post-Cold War Era, Allen and Unwin, New South Wales, 1993

‘Major Surface Combatants’ and ‘Anti-Submarine Warfare’ in R Gardner (Ed.), Navies in the Nuclear Age, Conway’s History of the Ship, 1993

With M. Pugh and J. Junifer, ‘Sea Power, Security and Peacekeeping After the Cold War’,  ‘UN Management of Naval Operations’ and ‘Operational and Technical Requirements’ in  M. Pugh (Ed.) Maritime Security and Peacekeeping, Manchester University Press, 1994

A Service Vindicated 1939-46’ J.R.Hill (Ed.), The Oxford Illustrated        History of the Royal Navy, Oxford University Press, 1995 pp349-380

‘Admiral Sir Ernle Chatfield’ and ‘Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor’ in M.H.Murfett (Ed.) The First Sea Lords, from Fisher to Mountbatten, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1995 pp157-171 and 249-264

‘Partnership Spurned: The Royal Navy’s search for a Joint Maritime-Air Strategy East of Suez’ in N.A.M. Rodger (Ed.) Naval Power in the Twentieth Century, Macmillan, London, 1996  pp227-242

‘The Royal Australian Navy in the Mediterranean in World War Two’, David Stevens (Ed.) The Royal Australian Navy in World  War Two, Allen and Unwin, Australia, 1996

‘Regional Naval Cooperation, the European Experience’ in S Bateman and S Bates (eds.), The Seas Unite: Maritime Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Region, Australian National University, 1996

‘Maritime Forces and Security in Southern Asia’ in E.Arnett (Ed.), Military Capacity and The Risk of War, Oxford University Press, 1997

‘Andrew Browne Cunningham’ in J Sweetman (Ed.), The Great Admirals; Command at Sea 1587-1945, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis.pp 418-441  

‘The British Admiralty and the Future of the RAN, 1958-60’ in D. Stevens (Ed.)  Maritime  Power in  the Twentieth Century, the Australian Experience, Allen and Unwin, Australia 1998.

‘Steam: A Revolution in Naval Affairs’ in D. Johnson and P Dennerley (Eds.) Half a World Away, Royal New Zealand Navy Museum, Auckland, 1998

‘Naval Command and Control Equipment: the Birth of the Revolution in Military Affairs’ in Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain’s Defence Laboratories, Harwood Academic, 1999

‘BR1806; Joint doctrine and Beyond’ in A Dorman et al (Eds.) The Changing Face of  Maritime  Power , Macmillan, London, 1999

With S.Rohan, ‘The Limits of Opposition: Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff’ in S Kelly and A Gorst, Whitehall and the Suez Crisis, Frank Cass, London, 2000 pp98-116

‘The Race for Sea Supremacy’ in The Conway History of  Seafaring in the Twentieth Century, Conway, London, 2000    

‘British Submarine Policy in the Inter War Period’ in M. Edmonds (Ed.) 100 Years of the Trade, Royal Navy Submarines Past, Present and Future, Lancaster University, 2001

‘British Naval Strategy Towards the Empire Overseas’ in J.Bruin, A Jackson, G. Jackson and P.C. Van Rooyen (Eds), Strategy  and  Response in the Twentieth Century Maritime World,   Amsterdam, 2001.

‘The Royal Navy 1945-90’ in P.P. O’Brien (ed.) Technology and Naval Combat in the  Twentieth Century and Beyond, Cass, London, 2001

‘A Comprehensive Assessment of Taiwan’s Sea Power’ in M Edmonds and M.M. Tsai, Taiwan’s Maritime Security, Routledge-Curzon, London, 2003.

‘Sea Power in the Asia Pacific at the Turn of the Millennium’, in C.M. Dent (Ed.),  Asia Pacific Economic Security Cooperation, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003. pp 95-109

‘The Century of the China station, The Royal Navy in Chinese Waters 1842-1942’ in R Harding, A Jarvis and A Kinnerley (Eds.) British Ships in the  China  Seas, 1700 to the Present  Day, Society for Nautical Research and National Museums, Liverpool, 2004 

‘The Superpowers and Secondary Navies in Northern Waters during the Cold War’,  in R. Hobson and T. Kristiansen,  Navies in Northern Waters, Frank Cass, London, 2004.

‘The Royal Navy and Guided Missiles’, in R. Harding (Ed.) The Royal Navy 1930-2000;Innovation and Defence, Frank Cass, London, 2005

’The Discovery of Doctrine: British Naval Thinking at the Close of the Twentieth Century’ in G.Till(Ed.) The Development of British Naval Thinking, Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranft , Routledge, London, 2006

‘Maritime Strategy in the New Century: a British View’ in J. McCaffrie (ed.), Positioning Navies for the Future: Challenge and Response, Sea Power Centre- Australia and Halstead Press, Broadway, NSW, 2006

‘Sea Power in the Asia Pacific Region” in L.W Prabhakar, J.H.Ho and S Bateman (Eds.) The Evolving Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific, Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies and World Scientific, Singapore, 2006'Maritime Power, Concepts and Prognosis' in Maritime Dimensions of a New world Ordwer in R.Vohra and D.Chakraborty (eds.), Ahamaya for the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, 2007

'The Autobiography of Chief Gunner Alexander Grant: HMS Lion at the Battle of  Jutland 1916' in S.Rose (Ed.) The Naval Miscellany, Volume 7, Ashgate, Aldershot  for the Navy Records Society, 2008

'Who to Fight in 1956, Egypt or Israel? Operation Musketeer Versus Operation Cordage' in S.Smith (ed.), Reassessing  Suez; New Perspectives on the Crisis and its Aftermath, Ashgate, Aldershot 2008

'Climax in the Baltic; The German Maritime Offensive in the Gull of Riga in October 1917' in I.Beckett (Ed.) 1917 Beyond the Western Front , Brill, Leiden 2008

 ‘Die Errinerung an die Skagerrakschlaft in Grossbritannien‘ in       M/Epkehans, J Hillmann and F Nagler (Eds.) Skagerrakschlacht; Vorgeschichte-Ereignis-Verarbeitung, Oldenbourg, Munich, 2009

‘Seamen or Airmen? The Early Days of British Naval Flying’ and ‘Air Force, Fleet Air Arm- or Armoured Corps? The Royal  Naval Air Service at War’ in Tim Benbow (Ed.) British Naval Aviation, The First Hundred Years, Farnham, 2012

British Defence Policy and the Transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and Beyond ‘ in Alessio Patalano ( Ed,) Maritime Strategy and National Security in Japan and Britain , Global Oriental, Leiden and Boston, 2012

Have also written a number of entries in the new Dictionary of National Biography,  the D Day Encyclopaedia, the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea and the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History. I have submitted a chapter on the sea and the Second World to the forthcoming Oxford Illustrated History of the Second World War edited by Richard Overy

Main Journal Articles

‘The UN Military Staff Committee; A Look Back’, International Security , Vol. 17, No 4,                 1993.

‘Navies in Peacekeeping and Enforcement’ in International Peacekeeping, Vol 1, No 4,  1994

'The Falklands War and British Defense Policy’, in Defense and Security Analysis, Vol. 18, 2002

’The Battleship is Dead, Long Live the Batleship! HMS Dreadnought and the Limits of Naval Innovation’  in  The Mariners Mirror, Vol 93, No 4, 2007

'The Naming of the Parts: Corbett's Theory of the Means Reconsidered' in Defence Studies, Volume 8, No 2, 2008

’The Royal Navy in the Twenty First Century: Does it Have a Role Beyond the Defence of Britain’s Seas’ in The Mariners Mirror Vol.97, No 1, 2011

Other Journal Articles

The first westerner to publish an article, ‘The Problem of Naval Arms Control’ in the just declassified Soviet General Staff Journal Voyennaya Mysl (1991). Have also published articles in US Naval  Institute Proceedings, Navy International, Naval Forces, Bulletin  of Atomic Scientists, London Review of  Books, Marine Rundschau, Naval History,  Naval  Review, Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Army Quarterly, Armor, and Jane’s Navy International. A short monograph  The Army and British Security After the Cold War: Defence Planning for a New Era, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute Occasional Papers. 1996. Also wrote the section on 'Sea Power' in the ISA Electronic Compendium.