Squadron Leader
David
Tucker
Combined Air Operations Center Torrejón
Squadron Leader David Tucker has served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) since 1987. He spent most of his career as a Weapons System Officer on the RAF Tornado GR1 and GR4, and completed an Exchange Tour with the German Air Force flying the Tornado ECR. He completed a MLitt in Strategic Studies at the University of Aberdeen in 2004, winning the Gordon Shephard Memorial prize that year for his essay published in the AirPower Review on European Defence Integration. He has finished a staff appointment at HQ Allied Air Command in Ramstein and currently serves in CAOC Torrejon.
Information provided is current as of February 2022
From the Author
The Challenge of Symbiosis
Synchronizing Kinetic and Non-Kinetic Ops
By Maj
Charilaos
Nikou
By Sqn Ldr
David
Tucker
The landscape of modern warfare has undergone significant transformations in recent years, becoming far more complex and multifaceted. The parameters of this new era of warfare have broadened beyond the traditional military-focused model, encompassing a [...]
Beyond SEAD
Synchronizing Joint Effects to Combat an A2/AD Threat
By Maj
Charilaos
Nikou
By Sqn Ldr
David
Tucker
In ‘The History of the Peloponnesian War’, the ancient Greek philosopher-historian Thucydides charted the war events which took place between Athens and Sparta (431–404 BC). One of the most significant parts is the ‘Melian dialogue’, [...]
NATO SEAD Course
Repairing the NATO SEAD Knowledge Gap
By Sqn Ldr
David
Tucker
It has been widely acknowledged that the past two decades have been bad for Air Electronic Warfare (EW) development owing to the West’s deep involvement in counter-insurgency in Afghanistan and the Middle-East. While advances in [...]
