Richard Simpkin
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Richard Evelyn Simpkin (1921 - 1986) was a British Army officer, attaining the rank of brigadier. He served during World War II with the Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa and was taken prisoner at Tobruk in 1942. Simpkin retired from the army in 1971.
Simpkin became a Russian language specialist and military theorist.
Race to the Swift is a comprehensive military theory work in the NATO context.
Deep Battle is a work about Red Army general and theorist Mikhail Tukhachevsky. It is part biography, part theory, and part translation of Tukhachevsky's works, focusing on Tukhachevsky's concepts of Deep Battle Theory. The centerpiece is the translation of the 1936 Red Army operations manual PU-36 Deep Operation, which Tukhachevsky is believed to have masterminded.
Bibliography (incomplete)
Antitank: an airmechanized response to armored threats in the 90s, Oxford: Brassey's, 1982. ISBN 0080270360
(In association with John Erickson), Deep battle : the brainchild of Marshal Tukhachevskii, London: Brassey's Defence, 1987. ISBN 0080311938
Human factors in mechanized warfare,Oxford: Brassey's Publishers, 1983. ISBN 0080283403
Race to the swift: thoughts on twenty-first century warfare, foreword by Donn A. Starry, London: Brassey's Defence, 1985. ISBN 0080311709
Red armour: an examination of the Soviet mobile force concept, Oxford: Brassey's Defence, 1984. ISBN 0080283411
Tank warfare: an analysis of Soviet and NATO tank philosophy, with a foreword by Robert W. Komer and an introduction by F. M. von Senger und Etterlin, London: Brasseys Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0904609251, 084481329X
Broadmanship: a guide to safe boating on the Norfolk Broads, cartoons by Nicholas Walmsley, illustrations by Chas Emerson, London: Barrie and Jenkins, Bayard Books, 1976. ISBN 0214202852
The cruising yachtsman's navigator, illustrated by John Bradley, London: S. Paul, 1978. ISBN 0091328306, 0091328314
Seamanship for the cruising yachtsman, London: Paul, 1979. ISBN 0091383005