Martijn Kitzen
Professor by Special Appointment
- Name
- Prof. dr. M.W.M. Kitzen
- Telephone
- 070 8009500
- m.w.m.kitzen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Martijn Kitzen is Professor by Special Appointment of Military Science at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. The chair, established and funded by the Royal Netherlands Society for War Studies (KVBK) in cooperation with the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA), focuses on the operational deployment of military force. He also holds a chair in Irregular Warfare and Special Operations at the NLDA, where he chairs the War Studies Department within the Faculty of Military Sciences.
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PhD candidates
Martijn Kitzen is Professor by Special Appointment of Military Science at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. The chair, established and funded by the Royal Netherlands Society for War Studies (KVBK) in cooperation with the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA), focuses on the operational deployment of military force. He also holds a chair in Irregular Warfare and Special Operations at the NLDA, where he chairs the War Studies Department within the Faculty of Military Sciences.
His research and teaching examine military operations, with a particular focus on special operations forces and irregular warfare, drawing on long-running fieldwork in Afghanistan and the Sahel. He is co-editor of The Conduct of War in the 21st Century: Kinetic, Connected and Synthetic (Routledge, with Rob Johnson and Tim Sweijs) and of Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror (Hurst), and has held research fellowships at the University of Amsterdam and Oxford's Changing Character of War Centre.
Beyond his scholarly work, Kitzen has advised on pre-deployment training for several armed forces, served as an in-theatre advisor in Afghanistan and the Sahel, and acted as academic advisor for the revision of NATO's AJP 3.4.4 (counter-insurgency). A former military officer with experience in NATO and UN missions, he holds a PhD in History, an MA in Political Science, and a degree from the Royal Netherlands Military Academy.
Please note that Martijn Kitzen is currently not available for PhD supervision.
Professor by Special Appointment
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- War, Peace and Justice
- Lid Adviesraad
- Hoogleraar Irreguliere Oorlogvoering & Speciale Operaties