Lt Col Giles Ebbutt MA RM (retd)
Giles Ebbutt was educated at Magdalen College School and Merton College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Marines in 1971 and his early service was in 45 Commando RM, including Arctic Warfare training in Norway.
Having specialised as a Signals Officer in 1978, he went on to hold a variety of communications appointments during his military career, including that of communications staff officer of 3 Commando Brigade and command of both 3 Commando Brigade Headquarters and Signal Squadron and the Royal Marines Signal Training Wing, as well as an exchange posting with the Army at the Royal School of Signals, Blandford. He attended the Army Staff College at Camberley in 1985-86, and subsequent appointments, outside communications, included Fleet Amphibious Intelligence officer on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Fleet, and within the Directorate of Naval Operations in the Ministry of Defence. In late 1996 he commanded the multi-national training team in the Baltic States as part of the Baltic Battalion project.
Giles Ebbutt retired from the Royal Marines in 1999 and very soon after was appointed Editor of Jane's C4I Systems. More recently, in October 2006, he was also appointed Editor of Jane's Simulation and Training Systems.
He is a regular contributor to Jane's Defence Weekly and Jane's International Defence Review, and was co-editor of Jane's World Armies 2005-2006.
Giles is married with two daughters and currently lives outside Plymouth
Huw R Williams
Huw Williams is Jane’s Land Desk Researcher and works on Jane’s Simulation
and Training Systems and Jane’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence.
He has previously worked as an assistant editor in biographical reference
publishing and as a freelance editor for an East European business publisher.
Prior to undertaking his second degree he worked as an English teacher in Poland.
Huw holds a BA in Geography with East European Studies from the University
of Nottingham, and an MSc in Russian and East European Studies from the
University of Birmingham where his studies focussed on economic and
industrial restructuring with a particular emphasis on the defence industry.
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