Major general jonathan shaw biography samples

Biography:

Commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in time to be a platoon commander during the Falklands War, Major General Jonathan Shaw would subsequently command on operations around the world at every rank up to 2*, his last command being the Multi-National Division in southern Iraq in 2007.

Jonathan also served as Head of Counter-Terrorism at the MoD during 2000-2001, was Director of Special Forces 2003-2005, became Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (International Security Policy) in 2009, and finally served as Assistant Chief of Defence Staff for Global issues, in 2011.

This latter involved being the creator and first head of the UK Defence Cyber Security Programme, working to the Cabinet Office and across Whitehall as well as to the Ministry of Defence. He retired from the British Army in 2012.

A regular commentator on defence issues in the national press and media, he writes for the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, and London Review o