About Us

Our Management Mission

The content on this website is written and edited by Dr George Bailey, to present his work to the largest possible audience and encourage discussion about the application of modern concepts of corporate strategy towards a better understanding of military management.

The focus is on the conduct and performance of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in the Great War. Recognising that these concepts may be applicable to other wars from the campaigns of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to current campaigns in the Middle East, we would welcome comments from professionals, practioners or those generally interested in military management.

Our vision is to expand the range of information for those studying war as observers or as practitioners.

A Public and Professional Life

Dr. Bailey studied Ecology at the University of Edinburgh, graduating from there in the June of 1967. He completed an MSc by research into animal behaviour at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, specialising on the territorial behaviour of small woodland mammals.

Taken on at the Department with an MRC grant, he studied the energy flow through a host-parasite system and gained his Doctorate in 1972. He was appointed to teach Environmental Management in the Urban Estate Management Department, the Polytechnic of Central London, where he remained for some 16 years.

Meanwhile he was given leave by the then Vice-Chancellor to seek election as a Greater London Councillor. Elected to represent Hounslow, Brentford and Isleworth in May 1997 he remained a Councillor there until the abolition of the GLC in 1986.

In 1987 he began a two year modular MBA programme at the Management College, Henley, whilst continuing his teaching duties. In 1990 the Dean of the London Management Centre secured his transfer to teach strategic management and marketing.

From 1983 he was a councillor in a Surrey Borough Council until not seeking re-election in 2003. For his public and political work he was appointed an O.B.E in the New Year's Honours List of 1995.

Then in 1996 he was offered a place on the part-time MA in War Studies at King's College London. After his studies were completed Professor Brian Bond put his name forward to become a member of the British Commission for Military History.

As External Examiner in under-graduate business studies and post-graduate MBA studies at Staffordshire and Reading Universities, in 2001 he was made an Honorary Professor of the ESERP University of Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.

Continuing his teaching duties at the new Westminster Business School, he has given lectures on the Great War in the Department of History and attends the Group for War and Cultural Studies led by Professor Debra Kelly.

Now with a grown-up family he enjoys sailing in Chichester Harbour and travel with his wife and being involved with the flourishing business and artistic endeavours of their two children.