Steve Tatham

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). He is the current 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. 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" .

Affiliations

• Tatham was listed on his own website as ‘Senior consultant’ at Middle East Consultancy International Ltd in 2006

Publications

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

• Steve Tatham and Lee Rowland, Strategic Communication & Infuence Operations: Do We Really Get It?, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, July 2010

• Steve Tatham, Strategic Communication: A Primer, Advanced Research and Assessment Group, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, December 2008

• Steve Tatham Al Jazeera: Get Used to It, It's Not Going Away, Proceedings, August 2005

• Steve Tatham Al-Jazeera: Can it Make it Here?, British Journalism Review, March 2005, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2005, pp.47-52

• Steve Tatham Hearts and Minds: Time to Think Differently?, Naval Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, November 2008, pp. 328-328

• Steve Tatham and Mohammed El-Katiri Qatar: A Little Local Difficulty?, Research and Assessment Branch, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, August 2009

• Steve Tatham Tactical Strategic Communication! Placing Informational Effect at the Centre of Command, Small Wars Journal, date unknown