Prof Philip Sabin
Select Recent Publications
'Wargaming in higher education: Contributions and challenges', Arts and
Humanities in Higher Education 14/4, October 2015, more details here.
(with John Curry & Tim Price), 'Commercial-Off-the-Shelf-Technology in UK
Military Training', Simulation & Gaming, 46/2, June 2015, more details here.
'UK Aerospace Power in Future Force 2020', Royal Air Force Air Power Review
18/1, Spring 2015, available online here.
(with Tim Allen & Kevin Fortuna), Angels One Five, (California: Victory Point
Games, 2015). More details here.
(with Tim Allen & Kevin Fortuna), Hell's Gate, (California: Victory Point Games,
2013). More details here.
Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games,
(London:Bloomsbury, 2012), further details available here. Revised paperback
edition published in spring 2014.
'Air Power's Second Century: Growing Dominance or Faded Glory?', Journal of
the JAPCC, 15, Spring 2012, available online here.
(with graphics by Mark Mahaffey), Lost Battles: Forty Battles and Campaigns of
the Ancient World, (London: Fifth Column Games, 2011). More details here.
‘The Benefits and Limits of Computerisation in Conflict Simulation’, Literary &
Linguistic Computing, 26/3, September 2011
‘The Current and Future Utility of Air and Space Power’, Royal Air Force Air
Power Review 13/3 (2010), available online here.
‘The Future of UK Air Power’, RUSI Journal, 154/5, October 2009
‘The Strategic Impact of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’, in Owen Barnes (ed.), Air
Power – UAVs: The Wider Context, (London: Ministry of Defence, 2009)
‘Why the Allies Won the Air War, 1939-1945’, in Claus-Christian Szejnmann
(ed.), Rethinking History, Dictatorship and War, (London: Continuum, 2009)
Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World, (London:
Hambledon Continuum, 2007), further details and sub-chapter available to
download here. Revised paperback edition published in spring 2009.
(edited with Hans van Wees & Michael Whitby), The Cambridge History of Greek
and Roman Warfare, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007),
further details here. This work received the 2009 Distinguished Reference Book
Award from the Society for Military History in the USA.
‘Ancient Military Wisdom and the Forgotten Context of Pre-Gunpowder Battle’,
Mars & Clio 19 (2007)
‘Technology, Culture and Military Effectiveness in the First Century of Air Power’,
in Japanese translation in Japan and the Future of Air Power: A Historical
Perspective, (Tokyo: National Institute for Defence Studies, 2006).
‘Perspectives from Within the Profession’, Royal Air Force Air Power Review 8/4
(2005)
‘Playing at War: The Modern Hobby of Wargaming’, in Tim Cornell & Thomas
Allen (eds.), War and Games, (Woodbridge: Boydell for CIROSS, 2002)
'Western Strategy in the New Era: The Apotheosis of Air Power?', in Andrew
Dorman, Mike Smith & Matt Uttley (eds.), The Changing Face of Military Power,
(London: Palgrave, 2001)
'The Face of Roman Battle', Journal of Roman Studies 90 (2000)
'Air Strategy and the Underdog', in Peter Gray (ed.), Air Power 21: Challenges for
the New Century, (London: The Stationery Office, 2000)
'Air Power in Joint Warfare', in Stuart Peach (ed.), Perspectives on Air Power,
(London: The Stationery Office, 1998)
'The Counter-Air Contest', 'Peace Support Operations - A Strategic Perspective',
and 'The Counter-Air Mission in Peace Support Operations', all in Andrew
Lambert & Arthur Williamson (eds.), The Dynamics of Air Power, (Bracknell: RAF
Staff College, 1996)
(edited with Tim Cornell & Boris Rankov), The Second Punic War: A Reappraisal,
(London: Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 67, 1996)