Articles
“Even Bond would have to share his secrets in the world of AI spying.” Financial Times, April 14, 2022.
“On the Digital Brink.” With Chris Lynch. War on the Rocks, March 11, 2021.
“Espionage and Hollywood.” USC Center for Public Diplomacy Blog, March 16, 2020.
Academic
Lewis, O. and Chris DeFaria. “Does my suffering matter? Storytelling and the military.” The World Information War, edited by Timothy Clack and Robert Johnson, London; New York, Routledge, 2021
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‘Remembering a story is the first step to retelling the story to others: stories exist as part of a social network of telling and retelling. It is not just that bad stories are not retold, it is that bad stories are not remembered. But good stories serve a grander purpose, they offer an answer to the most human of questions: does my suffering matter?’
Lewis, O and Andrew Britton. “‘Gripping and Touching’ the Afghan National Security Forces: Tactical and operational experiences during Operation Herrick 16”. At the End of Military Intervention: Historical, Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Transition, Handover and Withdrawal, edited by Timothy Clack and Robert Johnson, Oxford; New York, OUP, 2014
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‘This chapter is our ‘confessional tale’ as participants: in an international, inter-connected massive military bureaucracy; in an operational campaign in Helmand; as lobbyists and apologists for a Task Force Helmand-centric view of the ISAF campaign; and as individuals engaged in an attempt at reflexivity on our time in the field.’
Interviews with Oxonians
A series of interviews with world-leading academics conducting research at the University of Oxford. In 2008 I started these podcasts, and conducted most of the interviews, as the university’s first centralised experiment with what was then iTunesU.