Lieutenant General Sir John Panton Kiszely, KCB, MC, DL (born 2 April 1948) is a retired senior British Army officer who was director general of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2008.
[9] In an October 2012 article, the Sunday Times alleged that Kiszely was among several retired military leaders who had offered to lobby and influence MPs and government defence ministers on behalf of arms firms.
[11] Defence secretary Philip Hammond said that the allegations against Kiszely and others are damaging and that he may restrict the access that former officers have to current staff.
However, he argued that former military officers did not have influence on how the Ministry of Defence spends taxpayers' money.
It was published by the Cambridge University Press and won the inaugural Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History.