John H. Gill

John H. Gill (Jack) is an an associate fellow with the International Institute for Strategic Studies of London and an adjunct professor at the Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, affiliated with the National Defense University in Washington DC. His most recent book is The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, the Habsburgs and End of the War of 1809 (2020), but he has long specialized in the military history of the Napoleonic period with previous publications that include 1809—Thunder on the Danube, With Eagles to Glory, and A Soldier for Napoleon (editor). He has also authored book chapters, journal articles and book reviews on this era, led tours of Napoleonic battlefields and presented papers to the Society for Military History, the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era and the German Studies Association. A former U.S. Army South Asia Foreign Area Officer, his other publications include an Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War, chapters on current Indian and Pakistani political-military affairs, U.S.-India relations and India-Pakistan crisis behavior. An avid boardgamer with several Napoleonic simulations to his credit, he resides in northern Virginia where he is able to study battlefields of the American Civil War on a regular basis.