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Jonathan Carroll

Areas of Speciality
  • Britain and Ireland
  • Military History
Contact
  • jonathan.carroll@tamu.edu
Professional Links
Chair
Dr. Brian Linn

Research Interests

Jonathan Carroll is a PhD Candidate and Lecturer with the Department of History at Texas A&M University specializing in American and European military history. A native of the Republic of Ireland, Jonathan graduated with a Law Degree in 2015, and completed his Master’s in Military History and Strategic Studies in 2016, both from Maynooth University. In 2020 Jonathan was awarded an Advanced Certificate in International Affairs specializing in military and nuclear weapons policy from the Bush School of Government and Public Service. His research interests include military operations other than war (MOOTW) focusing on military interventions, low-intensity conflict, and counterinsurgency. His dissertation research project, God’s Work in Hell, is the first military history of the military intervention in Somalia from 1992-1995 by UNOSOM/UNITAF, moving away from the current dominance of Black Hawk Down to establish what happened during the largest nation building experiment in history up to that point. Jonathan’s most recent publication “Courage Under Fire: Reevaluating Black Hawk Down and the Battle of Mogadishu,” in War in History, used new evidence to challenge the existing narrative of what caused the Black Hawk Down incident in Mogadishu in October 1993. Jonathan is the 2020 recipient of the Dr. David L. Chapman ’67 Research Fellowship and is the 2021 Smith Richardson Foundation Fellow in World Politics and Statecraft. Before coming to Texas A&M Jonathan served in the Irish Defence Forces Reserve (2005-2017) as an NCO and subsequently a commissioned officer and has published several times on Irish defence policy regarding the Army Reserve.