Richard Connaughton

Richard Michael Connaughton (born 20 January 1942) is a British Army officer and author specialised in military history.

Life Connaughton was educated at Duke of York's Royal Military School in Dover, Kent and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served in the British Army for more than 30 years, where he specialised in military logistics. He has a son (born 1972) and a daughter (born 1974).

Work The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–05. London, New York, Routledge, 1988. The Republic of the Ushakovka: Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia, 1918–20. London, New York, Routledge, 1990. Military Intervention in the 1990s: A New Logic of War. London, New York, Routledge, 1992. Swords and Ploughshares: Coalition Operations, the Nature of Future Conflict and the United Nations: A Paper. Camberley, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1993. Shrouded Secrets: Japan's War on Mainland Australia, 1942–1944. London, Washington D.C., Brassey's, 1994. The Battle for Manila. Novato, CA, Presidio, 1995. The Nature of Future Conflict. London, Leo Cooper, 1995. Celebration of Victory, V-E Day 1945. London, Washington D.C., Brassey's, 1995. Descent Into Chaos: The Doomed Expedition to Low's Gully. London, Washington D.C., Brassey's, 1996. Military Support and Protection for Humanitarian Assistance: Rwanda, April – December 1994. Camberley, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1996. MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines. Woodstock, New York, Overlook Press, 2001. Military Intervention and Peacekeeping: The Reality. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate, 2001. Omai: The Prince Who Never Was. London, Timewell Press, 2005. A Brief History of Modern Warfare. London, Robinson, Philadelphia, Running Press, 2008. A Dorset Parish Remembers 1914-1919, (Editor), Milton Mill Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9540570-3-9. A Dorset Parish Remembers 1939-1945, (Editor), Milton Mill Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9540570-4-6.