David Whetham

His teaching and research over the last ten years has been primarily focused on understanding the impact of technology on the normative environment, and improving the provision of military ethics education and training both in the UK and internationally.

While completing his PhD, Whetham worked as a taxi driver, a BBC researcher and with the OSCE in Kosovo, supporting the 2001 and 2002 elections, before joining King’s as a permanent member of staff in 2003.

[citation needed] Primarily based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at the UK Defence Academy, Whetham coordinates or delivers the military ethics component of courses for between two and three thousand British and international officers a year, as well as engaging in wider activities supporting military ethics education in the UK and internationally.

His books include: Ethics, Law and Military Operations (Palgrave, 2010), Just Wars and Moral Victories (Brill, 2009), with Andrea Ellner & Paul Robinson (Eds), When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military (Ashgate: 2014), and with Deane-Peter Baker and Roger Herbert, The Ethics of Special Ops: Raids, Recoveries, Reconnaissance, and Rebels (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

In his spare time, he is a Magistrate on the Wiltshire bench, fences with the medieval longsword and epée, and plays the trombone with the 41 Degrees Big Band.