Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 2: First World War Charles Townshend's Advance on Baghdad: The British Offensive in b, September-November 1915 Nikolas Gardner (Associate Professor of Strategy, Department of Strategy and Leadership, Air Way College, Alabama, USA) Nikolas Gardner holds a PhD in military history and strategic studies from the University of Calgary. He has taught at Mount Royal College, in Calgary and the University of Salford, in Greater Manchester. He is currently Associate Professor of Strategy at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dr. Gardner is the author of Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, (Praeger, 2003), and articles in a variety of journals including The Journal of Contemporary History, War in History, War & Society, and The Journal of Military History. He has served on the Council of the Army Records Society, and as Reviews Editor of the Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research. In September 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.