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).[1] 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.[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]
Affiliations
- Tatham was listed on his own website as ‘Senior consultant’ at Middle East Consultancy International Ltd in 2006[5]
Publications
- 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 Al Jazeera: Get Used to It, It's Not Going Away, Proceedings, August 2005
- Steve Tatham, Losing Arab Hearts & Minds: The Coalition, Al-Jazeera & Muslim Public Opinion, Hurst & Co, 2006
- Steve Tatham Losing the Information War in Iraq: The Dynamics between Terrorism and, Public Opinion and the Media, Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism, 2007
- Steve Tatham Hearts and Minds: Time to Think Differently?, Naval Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, November 2008, pp. 328-328
- Steve Tatham, Strategic Communication: A Primer, Advanced Research and Assessment Group, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, December 2008
- 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 Book Review: Martin Bell, The Truth that Sticks: New Labour's Breach of Trust, Media, War & Conflict, Vol.2, No.2, August 2009, pp.234-236
- Steve Tatham Strategic Communication: An Important New Discipline, The British Army, October 2009, pp.128-129
- Steve Tatham and Andrew Mackay, Behavioural Conflict: From General to Strategic Corporal: Complexity, Adaptation and Influence, The Shrivenh Papers, No. 9, December 2009
- Steve Tatham and Lee Rowland, Strategic Communication & Infuence Operations: Do We Really Get It?, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, July 2010
- Steve Tatham Tactical Strategic Communication! Placing Informational Effect at the Centre of Command, Small Wars Journal, date unknown
Notes
- ↑ Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 03/01/10
- ↑ Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 03/01/10
- ↑ Steve Tatham: Strategic Communication, Steve Tatham website, accessed 03/01/10
- ↑ Cabinet Office FoI response FOI275654, dated 1 October 2010
- ↑ Steve Tatham, Steve Tatham, Website, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 10 February 2006, on 3 December 2010
