Phillips Payson O’Brien

Chair of Strategic Studies, School of International Relations at University Of St Andrews

Phillips Payson O’Brien is the Chair of Strategic Studies in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He has published two major books on the Second World War, How the War was Won and The Second Most Powerful Man in the World. He is presently working on his third, a study of how the experience of the First World War shaped the grand strategy of the Second.