Knightsbridge University's Faculty

I just did a search for "knightsbridge university" site:.mil and got no hits.

A search for "american military university" site:.mil generated 228 hits.

A search for "knightsbridge university" "military studies" generated 16 hits. (Complete results posted below.)

A search for "american military university" "military studies" generated 4,100 hits.

Here's some comments on the Knightsbridge results: Of the 16 hits, six were Knightsbridge pages. Five additional hits contained the same text string: "Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University and a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society". Of these, two were from discussion boards and three from Geocities. Two hits were a site called submarinesaustralia.com referring to two of Roger Thompson's draft papers. Two more hits were an annuncement of KU's program in a Canadian periodical.

This announcement shares a text string with the last hit: an advertisement on an Inter-University Seminar page for both adjunct professors and "external examiners" (?!), giving Roger Thompson as contact person.

Isn't that highly irregular? If the "external examiners" are employed by Knightsbridge, then how are they external?

My impression is that this appears to be very much a one-man operation. If anyone out there wants to study military affairs with Roger Thompson, then it might have considerable value. But it doesn't really look like a credible university degree program at this point.

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October Log
... Roger Thompson, Professor of Military Studies, Knightsbridge University has now
updated his draft paper on "Is the US Navy Overrated" and has expanded the role ...
submarinesaustralia.com/log.htm - 95k - Cached - Similar_pages

HOW TO SINK AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER?
... Author Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University
and a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. ...
www.military-quotes.com/forum/ viewtopic.php?t=2804&start=75 - 41k - Cached - Similar_pages

World Affairs Board - Dutch Subs "Sinking" US Carrier and many ...
... Author Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University
and a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. ...
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Knightsbridge University
"Knightsbridge University's Master of Arts in Military Studies course is
a splendid academic program designed for the mature student. ...
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Knightsbridge University
... of a short project designed to show how the course work can be applied by a practicing
military studies professional. ... Copyright Knightsbridge University 2004 ...
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Knightsbridge University
... He has presented papers on military studies at the Turkish Military Academy and ... Research,
from the RCM and Doctor of Philosophy from Knightsbridge University. ...
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Knightsbridge University
Taught programmes as per 1st. April 2004. Title, Levels. Applied Mathematics, BSc.
Arts - Medicine, BA/MA. Astronomy, BSc/MSc. Bilbliotherapy, MA. ...
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[DOC] Is the US Navy Overrated (3.0)?
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... Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University and
a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. ...
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[PDF] Is the US Navy Overrated (3.0)?
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... The Author Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University
and a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society ...
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3rd Amphibious Warfare Studies Group (Maritime)
... Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University and
a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. ...
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Aircraft carriers must submerge to avoid SSC destruction
... Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University and
a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. ...
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Gadgetry trumps all to the Tofflerians
... Roger Thompson is Professor of Military Studies at Knightsbridge University and
a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. ...
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[DOC] ANNOUNCEMENTS
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... Knightsbridge University, a private distance learning university based in Denmark,
is ... Diploma, Certificate and Master of Science programme in Military Studies. ...
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Canadian Defence Review Magazine - Canada's Authoritative Defence ...
... Danish university offers military studies — Knightsbridge University, a private
distance learning university based in Denmark, will be offering a graduate ...
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Canadian Defence Review Magazine - Canada's Authoritative Defence ...
... Knightsbridge University, a private distance learning university based in Denmark,
will ... Diploma, Certificate and Master of Science program in Military Studies. ...
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[PDF] Army Reservists in Iraq: A Policy Failure
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... An Updated Knightsbridge Working Paper Copyright 2004 By Roger Thompson
Professor of Military Studies, Knightsbridge University. ...
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Dear Professor Thompson,

Thank you for the information, I would like to request the following additional information.

How many students have graduated in Military Studies from KU?

How many students are currently enrolled?

What is the ratio of doctorate versus master versus bachelor degrees?

How many instructors are in your department?

How many peers generally sit on a doctorate review panel?

Does KU Military Studies department follow the same Knightsbridge University procedures for evaluating dissertations that was used in granting Neil Hayes his doctorate from Knightsbridge University?

Thanks,

 

Bill & Bill:

Quite frankly I am appalled at your behavior. Professor Thompson came to this forum and quite civilly and peacefully posted an extensive advertisement for his programme in Military Studies from Knightsbridge University. He also provided extensive and conclusive evidence of the legitimacy, credibility, and excellence of his program in the form of one individual’s quote. And what do you do?

Mr. Dayson, you had the audacity to post the results of an Internet search on "knightsbridge university" for anything associated with Military Studies. You acted somewhat surprised that the search uncovered very little, if any, information.

Mr. Huffman, you had the arrogance of asking for additional information.

You guys simply don’t get it. You don’t realize that a large component of Military Studies is military intelligence and that secrecy must be maintained at all costs. Haven’t you ever heard the phrase, “Loose lips sink ships?” Professor Thompson will not answer your questions, Mr. Huffman, as that information is on a “need to know basis.” And as to your Google searches, Mr. Dayson, why don’t you run one on the world’s most prominent and highly respected Military Studies program, and see what kind of results you get. Go ahead; run a search for "buxton university" site:.mil and see how many hits you get!

Your responses to Professor Thompson’s post have led him to write (on another forum) the following:

• Dr. Charles Moskos reviewed and evaluated our programme and staff, and he was happy to give us an unqualified endorsement. When I mentioned this on "that other" board, I was pounced on by several people, one of whom claimed that my department was just "a one man" operation. Anyone who cares to visit the Knightsbridge web site will clearly see the names and credentials of our senior faculty members from the US (including a US Naval Reserve Captain), a retired Canadian CF-18 fighter squadron commander, and other distinguished folks from Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Hungary and other great countries. I respond to the ill-informed critics out there that world famous scholars like Moskos don't put there name behind just any old programme. In any event, I will not post on that "other board" again, as I have better things to do then argue with a group of "school yard bullies" and know-it-alls.

So there you have it. An eminent scholar in Military Studies has executed a well planned strategic retreat when faced with overwhelming “pouncing” and allegations that his “department was just ‘a one man’ operation.” As Sun Tzu, the great military leader and philosopher, once stated, “You ‘school yard bullies’ and ‘know-it-alls’ may have won the battle, but not the war!” (He did, however, continue to relinquish his lunch money for many more years.)

 

Yeah, you old meanies. Poor widdle Woger is wicking his wounds on anovver webthite. How could you be tho inthenthitive? He had an "unqualified endorsement" from a Northwestern University guy (time out to ooh and aah) who'd been a hired gun in a lawsuit by mass murderer and terrorist Timothy McVeigh.

"Unqualified endorsement" could mean a couple of things.

Also, to imply that Northwestern (ooh! aah!) via Moskos endorses or has even heard of Knightsbridge is a bit like implying that Harvard endorses or has even heard of Adam Smith University because our old pal Grunewald has a Harvard DBA.

Seriously, Thompson gets asked a couple of reasonable questions and runs screaming for momma duck and whoever else would say "there, there". Like many another shill, he's so touchy that flight or abuse are his only responses when asked to argue via logic and fact.

 

Moskos is highly respected in military circles, required reading in professional military courses. But that doesn't make him an expert in education.

Does a few words from Charles Moskos indicate true quality in this aspect of Knightsbridge? It certainly would lean in that direction. But it still ignores the many inconsistencies presented by Knightsbridge.

I don't know Moskos, so I don't know what he really thinks. But it wouldn't surprise me to find out that he doesn't know anything about Knightsbridge.

As for the "abuse" decried by our suddenly departed Knightsbridge person, we hear that a lot from people connectd to Knightsbridge. But why? The participants on this board are utterly sensitive and supportive of legitimate, unaccredited schools. But they (we) are not afraid to tell the truth and acknowledge limitations in these programs.

Pointing out facts morphs into "RA or no way," and questions morph into "abuse." Amazing.

Neil Hayes whines like a little kid with a skinned knee regarding his experience here. He often alludes to "vile" things said about him, but never actually says what they were. To my knowledge, the only thing ever said about Hayes was related to his two fake Ph.D.'s and how they were "earned" (and from where). There have even been people supportive of his duck thing. (I've neen neutral, knowing exactly as much about ducks as Hayes does about legitimate higher education.)

As usual, Unk got it right.

 

Interesting, but what I want to know is which Bill was the bully and which one was the know-it-all?

 

switch?

A question for the better educated.


The Knightsbridge school looks to be non- accredited.

But it seems they have a program with well prepared Professors (Military Studies).

Questions:

(i) Would it be better to have under-qualified Prof.'s teaching at an accredited school or qualified staff at a unaccredited school?

Does a over qualified staff lend legitamacy to a non-recognized school?

Say the teachers @ St Reguz are:

(a) John Bear, PhD
(b) Rich Douglas, PhD
(c) Steve Levicoff, PhD

versus

a R.A. Institution that has:

(a) John Bart, PhD (St Regis University Liberia)
(b) Rick Dunglass, PhD (James Monroe University)
(c) Stan Letrinecuff, PhD (Place your Favorite name here)

Wouldn't it be better to have the first group which would transmit knowledge than the second group that well............ you know?

 

As I point out regularly in my books, some people go to school to learn stuff. Some go to school to get degrees. And some do both. A good teacher at a bad school (and what is her or she doing there anyway) could only make sense if there is no wish to get a degree, only the knowledge.

Oldtimers remember that back when I listed my ten favorite schools, my #1 was International College, based on the apprentice program. You actually studied violin with Menuhin, animals with Gerald Durrell, poetry with Anais Nin, etc. For most people, I suspect, the degree was incidental. If you can say, "I studied architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright, it hardly matters if you did it in his kitchen, on the Harvard campus, or anywhere in between.

 

Here's Roger Thompson's personal website. The gentleman certainly seems opinionated.

http://www.professorthompson.com/

 

Lookit the pix and how he's holding the book--paging Dr Freud!

All those book endorsements? Well, most public figures, if you send 'em a copy of a book, will send you a polite acknowledgment. Is that an endorsement? I dunno.
I'll have to mill oops mull that one over a while.

 

One can get an education in many places; one must go to a college or university to get a degree.

Where is this program Thompson runs? Does it actually exist at Knightsbridge? Or is Fyrst just giving Thompson the umbrella under which another one-man operation can run?

Questions like the one above wouldn't have to be asked of a recognized school, or one that didn't engage in the kinds of things we've seen from Knightsbridge. Thompson's behavior on this board is just one more rock in that pile.

 

Hi Rich,

You have previously boasted that you work for a leading non-traditional university.

What is the name?

You never mention the name, which is frankly odd.

 

This is not odd at all. It's amazing how many depraved individuals troll the Internet and post inanities with a callous disregard for thread titles or the subject being discussed, solely to satisfy a pathologically perverse penchant for stalking and harassing others.

 

Sorry Gus

Rich and I have unfinished business.

Rich Douglas claims to work for "for a leading non-traditional university"

He won't name it, which sounds, well, suspicious.

I know he was involved with MIGS and VIU in the past. Just wondered what he was shilling for *cough* sorry, promoting, at the moment.

If it is a decent school, why mention it if he is not prepared to name it?

I could say I have the biggest penis in the UK, doesn't mean it is true unless I can prove it.

 

Re: Sorry Gus

I have worked for companies in both the UK and the USA which prohibit one publically declaring ones employer without authorization (actually a fine line; resumes to potential employers are OK, but letters to the press are not OK). Because of that clause you will not see my last employer mentioned in any of my posts (although an astute aerospace engineer could probably make a good guess).

 

Re: Sorry Gus

If the matter is solely between you and Rich, I suggest that you discuss it privately via email or this forum’s private message function. There is no need to subject the other members of this forum to your boorish behavior.

Suspicious? Only to you, Fred, only to you. Once again, this does not seem to be a matter for public discussion.

If you believe or have evidence of a conflict of interest concerning any of Rich’s public statements, come right out and state what it is. Otherwise, your behavior and personal interest in Rich’s private life is of no consequence to the rest of us.

Reread my previous post.

Precisely. The members of this forum have as much interest in your personal vendetta with Rich as we have in your member. Please spare us your inanities.

 

You know, Mr. Wilkinson, you fool no one but fools. Most of your posts have been attempts to start fights, or advocacy for standardless DL. You have reused verbatim and repeatedly the phraseology of the late unlamented pathological fora. You are, like virtually every other troll or shill, obsessed with Rich Douglas. You range over this board attempting to be provocative and to start fights between other posters. You have violated the TOS repeatedly. Either you are an earlier banned poster using a false identity or you are a scavenger of pro-mill detritus.

(This is where you whine that I'm trying to suppress discussion--as though I had any power to suppress anything but my own gag reflex as I read certain posts.)

Your language suggests that your unfinished business is not with Dr Douglas but with Mr Hogan, who is equally anatomically-minded with you. For all we know you are Mr Hogan, or Begum Claudia, or some other random Buxtonite. You impress no one. You are no good at what you do.

(This is where you go caterwauling on some other forum about how mean we all are at what you will, sure as God made little green apples, call degreemisinfo or something similar to win temporary kudos from others whose views are as wrong as yours but whose intellects, frankly, outshine yours as the lit fart makes the firefly grow dim.)

 

Uncle,
Forgive me for intruding something silly here, but I can't resist.

My favorite moniker that the "other forum(s)" refer to this one is DebrisInflow..... LOL

- Carl

 

Possibly the most remarkable analogy I have ever read...

 

Recent use by those associated with Knightsbridge University of Professor Moskos's comments in their marketing efforts led me to look up whether I had ever posted his response to my query concerning his assessment of this blatant degree mill and its military studies program. It seems I have been remiss in sharing what Professor Moskos told me.

In an email dated October 19, 2004, Professor Moskos told me that he really knew nothing about Knightsbridge University, and that when they had contacted him (Professor Thompson’s usual M.O. of seeking endorsements) he “wrongly presumed it was a regular British university.”

In other words, by his own admittance, Professor Moskos, like so many others, was taken in by Knightsbridge’s elaborate scam. Moreover, he did not seem very pleased about this.

If Knightsbridge and those associated with it continues to use his comments for marketing purposes, I will inform him of this fact.