Lynette Nusbacher is a military historian

Military history

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 and strategist

Strategist

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 appointed Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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, UK

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. She headed the Strategic Horizons Unit in the Cabinet Office

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, and is director of the strategy think tank Nusbacher Associates.

Education

Dr Nusbacher completed her honours BA in history and economics at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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, studying under Northrop Frye

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, John Leyerle, Thayron Sandquist and Steven Muhlberger. She earned her MA in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada

Royal Military College of Canada

The Royal Military College of Canada, RMC, or RMCC , is the military academy of the Canadian Forces, and is a degree-granting university. RMC was established in 1876. RMC is the only federal institution in Canada with degree granting powers...

 under Ronald Haycock and Michael Hennessy. Her DPhil from the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 was under Clive Holmes and David Parrott.

Publications

Among her publications (those before 2006 were published under the name Aryeh Nusbacher) are the book The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314, the children's book War and Conflict, and a paper titled "Civil Supply in the Civil War: Supply of Victuals to the New Model Army on the Naseby Campaign, 1–14 June 1645" in the English Historical Review.

Television

Lynette Nusbacher was a consultant for the PBS series Ground War and appeared on the Crime and Investigation Network's Curious and Unusual Deaths series.

She made regular contributions (under the name Aryeh Nusbacher) to a wide variety of television programmes on military themes, amongst which Time Commanders

Time Commanders

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 was perhaps the most notable.

Public Lectures

She delivered the 2006 Cecil Roth

Cecil Roth

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 Memorial Lecture, "The Logistics of Exodus" at the London Jewish Museum.

External links

• Lynette Nusbacher at Sandhurst (retrieved Nov 2010)
• Lynette Nusbacher at the IMDb (retrieved Nov 2010)
• UKGameshow:Time_Commanders (retrieved Nov 2010)