Jonathan Carroll is an associate professor of military history at the British Army’s Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst where he is an instructor specializing in modern and future warfighting. He received his doctorate in military history from Texas A&M University in College Station. Dr. Carroll has taught courses on U.S. and European military history; leadership, combat, and command; air power in contemporary warfare; and U.S. social and political history from 1865 to the present. A major focus of his teaching is on the First and Second World Wars. He has taught at Texas A&M, the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Birmingham, King’s College London, and is a PhD supervisor at the University of Buckingham. A native of the Republic of Ireland, Dr. Carroll served in the Irish Army for twelve years. In 2023, he published his first book on contemporary Irish defense. In 2025, his second book, the award-winning Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-building and Counterinsurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995 was released, as the first military history of the U.S. and UN military intervention in Somalia, known primarily for the fifteen-hour Battle of Mogadishu, otherwise known as the “Black Hawk Down” incident. He is currently working on his third and fourth books simultaneously, which focus on the Bosnian War and the Rwandan Genocide respectively. In his spare time, Dr. Carroll wanders the battlefields of Europe in search of new stories to tell. He has a particular interest in the Allied Airborne and Amphibious operations of the European Theater of WWII, and he has been the recipient of several national and international awards for his historical research.