Jonathan Krause completed his doctorate on the French army’s tactical development during 1915 in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. It was subsequently published as Early Trench Tactics in the French Army: The Second Battle of Artois, May–June 1915 (2013). He has held teaching posts at the RAF College, Cranwell, King’s College London and Oxford and Wolverhampton universities. He is currently writing a comparative study of anticolonial rebellions during the First World War arising from an AHRC funded early career research fellowship, ‘Rebellion and Mobilization in French and German Colonies, 1914–1918’.