Steve Tatham

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Steve Tatham is a Naval Officer and expert in military public relations and strategic communication. He was a public spokesman for the British Military in Sierra Leone (2000), Afghanistan (2001-2002) and Iraq (2003).[1] He was the Director of Communication Research at the UK Defence Academy's Advanced Research and Assessment Group and is a leading proponent of the doctrine of strategic communication.[2] In 2009 he was seconded to the Joint Intelligence Organisation in the Cabinet Office on "advanced Horizon Scanning Research on the UK National Security Strategy (2) project". [3] According to the Cabinet Office this refers to the Strategic Horizons Unit of the Joint Intelligence Organisation.[4]

Homepage of 'stevetatham.net' the personal webpage of Steve Tatham before all content was removed from the page in late 2010. Screengrab taken 4 March 2010

Strategic Communication

Tatham is the author of "Strategic Communication: A Primer" [5], the British Military's first articulation of Strategic Communication doctrine. As well as being written to aid the authors of the Ministry of Defence Doctrine and Concepts Centre's formulation of counter-insurgency doctrine (JDP3-40) [6], Small Wars Journal has stated that

Tatham's primer has been followed by the roll out of a Strategic Communication education program across all UK Staff Courses. Trialed initially on the UK's Tri-Service Warrant Officer's course - where the concept was warmly welcomed - it has subsequently been rolled out to the initial (8 week) staff courses (for Lieutenants and Captains), the Advanced (1 year) staff course (for Majors and Lieutenant Colonels) and the Higher Staff Course for very senior officers. [7]

Affiliations

Publications

Homepage of 'stevetatham.net' the personal webpage of Steve Tatham after all content was removed from the page in late 2010. Screengrab taken 10 February 2011

Arab media project

Tatham listed the following videos on his website as part of a 6 month project with 3 Arab TV channels in Afghanistan on "defeating the AQ [Al Qaeda] image of "The Crusader" [14]

Books and articles

  • Steve Tatham, Losing Arab Hearts & Minds: The Coalition, Al-Jazeera & Muslim Public Opinion, Hurst & Co, 2006


Notes

  1. Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 03/01/10
  2. Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 03/01/10
  3. Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 03/01/10
  4. Cabinet Office FoI response FOI275654, dated 1 October 2010
  5. Tatham, S.(2008)Strategic Communication: A Primer Advanced Research and Assessment Group Special Series(08/28), accessed 05/10/09
  6. Steve Tatham: Papers Academia.edu: UK Defence Academy, accessed 05/02/10
  7. Dillege, D. (2009)Small Wars Journal: Strategic Communication Primer, Small Wars Journal website, accessed 05/02/10
  8. International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation: Associate Fellows, ICSR Website, accessed 05/02/10
  9. Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 05/02/10
  10. Steve Tatham, Strategic Communication accessed 03/01/10
  11. Steve Tatham, Steve Tatham, Website, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 10 February 2006, on 3 December 2010
  12. Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 03/01/10
  13. Cabinet Office FoI response FOI275654, dated 1 October 2010
  14. Steve Tatham: Publications and Projects, Steve Tatham website, accessed 05/02/10
  15. Steve Tatham: Publications and Projects, Steve Tatham website, accessed 05/02/10