Our PhD course will allow you to become an expert in a specialist area and provide you with an opportunity to gain high-quality research training. Your research will be guided by supervisors with whom you'll have regular meetings throughout your PhD. Your supervisors will help you put in place an initial plan, provide guidance on your progress, discuss your findings, and set out your plans for the next stage of research. During your first year you'll work on a plan for your PhD project as well as a bibliography. You'll also develop a detailed research proposal and write a literature review. This work will be submitted to a panel of examiners who will assess it and provide you with feedback and advice on the progress of your research. The further years are mostly spent with a focus on writing your thesis which will be examined by two academics (one external to the University). You'll discuss and defend your findings in a formal oral examination called a viva which is a way to further expand on your research and demonstrate your expertise in your chosen area of study. Your PhD can be taken full-time (three years standard, four years maximum) or part-time (five years standard, seven years maximum).<br><br>Our PhD course will allow you to become an expert in a specialist area and provide you with an opportunity to gain high-quality research training. Your research will be guided by supervisors with whom you'll have regular meetings throughout your PhD. Your supervisors will help you put in place an initial plan, provide guidance on your progress, discuss your findings, and set out your plans for the next stage of research. During your first year you'll work on a plan for your PhD project as well as a bibliography. You'll also develop a detailed research proposal and write a literature review. This work will be submitted to a panel of examiners who will assess it and provide you with feedback and advice on the progress of your research. The further years are mostly spent with a focus on writing your thesis which will be examined by two academics (one external to the University). You'll discuss and defend your findings in a formal oral examination called a viva which is a way to further expand on your research and demonstrate your expertise in your chosen area of study. Your PhD can be taken full-time (three years standard, four years maximum) or part-time (five years standard, seven years maximum).We start at the Clausewitzian debate as to whether war is merely the continuation of policy by other means, or has either its own grammar or logic. We also tackle contemporary issues including European security, military intelligence, population transfer, soldiers and soldiering in the Napoleonic Wars, commonalities and differences in surrender, transnational military mobilization, and atrocities in Europe. War and Peace's current projects include the University's major Legacies of War initiative, externally-funded investigations into military intelligence and medicine in the First World War, and editing War in History, the world-leading journal for the study of the subject.