Lieutenant General Sir Paul Raymond Newton KBE is a former British Army officer and Director of Exeter University's Strategy and Security Institute.

[4] Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1994,[5] he was given command of the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (2PWRR) in Northern Ireland.

[6] He was deployed as the Deputy, Strategic Planning in HQ Multi-National Force Iraq in September 2004 for which he was awarded the US Legion of Merit.

[9] He returned to Iraq in early 2007 to lead reconciliation efforts, for which he was awarded the American Legion of Merit, First Oak Leaf Cluster.

[15] Recently appointed a senior associate fellow at RUSI, he has co-edited and contributed to 'After the Spring: Prospects for the Arab World in 2013, UNA-UK', published in December 2012 and wrote a chapter entitled 'Adapt or Fail: The Challenge for the Armed Forces after Blair’s Wars' for Professor Sir Hew Strachan's book, 'Blair’s Wars' published in June 2013.