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Joel Hayward, ZDaF, BA, MA Hons, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS

Academic articles

I have published widely in the world's leading defence and military journals.

These peer-reviewed scholarly articles, many of them often cited by historians and defence analysts, include this representative selection:

  • "Hitler’s Quest for Oil: The Impact of Economic Considerations on Military Strategy, 1941-42", The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (December 1995), pp. 94-135.
  • "Stalingrad: An Examination of Hitler’s Decision to Airlift", Airpower Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 21-37. Read this article HERE. The article has been widely cited in student reports and theses at the [U.S.] Air Command and Staff College and the [U.S.] School of Advanced Airpower Studies. The U.S. Air Force also published the article in Spanish and Portuguese. It can be read in Portuguese HERE.
  • "The German Use of Airpower at Kharkov, May 1942", Air Power History, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 18-29.
  • "Von Richthofen's 'giant fire-magic': The Luftwaffe's Contribution to the Battle of Kerch, 1942", The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (June 1997), pp. 97-124.
  • "A Case Study in Effective Command: An Analysis of Field Marshal Richthofen's Character and Career", New Zealand Army Journal, No. 18 (January 1998), pp. 7-18.
  • "NATO's Air War in the Balkans: A Preliminary Analysis", New Zealand Army Journal, No. 21 (July 1999), pp. 1-17. Read this widely-cited article HERE.
  • "A Case Study in Early Joint Warfare: An Analysis of the Wehrmacht's Crimean Campaign of 1942", The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 103-130. Read this article HERE.
  • "Too Little, Too Late: An Analysis of Hitler's Failure in August 1942 to Damage Soviet Oil Production", The Journal of Military History, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2000), pp. 769-794. Read this weighty article HERE.
  • "Horatio Lord Nelson's Warfighting Style and the Maneuver Warfare Paradigm", Defence Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 15-37. Read this article HERE.
  • "Prayers Before Battle: The Spiritual Utterances of Three Great Commanders", U.S. Army Chaplaincy Journal (Winter-Spring 2002), pp. 32-40. Read this fun little article HERE.
  • "Current and Future Command Challenges for New Zealand Defence Force Personnel", Australian Defence Force Journal, No. 155 (July/August 2002), pp. 39-45. Read this article HERE.

Monograph

  • "Adolf Hitler and Joint Warfare," Military Studies Institute Working Papers Series No. 2/2000 (44 pp.). Read this widely-cited study HERE.