Richard Michael Connaughton (born 20 January 1942) is a British Army officer and author specialised in military history.
[1] He served in the British Army for more than 30 years, where he specialised in military logistics.
[1] Connaughton was stationed in East Asia at the Brigade of Gurkhas, before being seconded to Germany and Northern Ireland.
[1] Since the mid-1980s, Connaughton has written on military history, e.g. on subjects such as the Russian-Japan War, Admiral Alexander Kolchak's service during the Russian Civil War or General Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines.
In 1992 Connaughton became Research Fellow of the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS) of Lancaster University.