Jim Storr was an infantry officer in the British Army for 25 years. He served in the Headquarters of British Forces Falklands Islands; the 1st Infantry Brigade (The United Kingdom Mobile Force); and United States European Command; in the British Army of the Rhine (three times), Northern Ireland, Canada and Cyprus. He gained a doctorate for considering the nature of military thought; planned the introduction of battlefield digital systems; and wrote high-level doctrine.
In his second career he has consulted to international tech and oil companies; been a professor of war studies, and taught human factors at Oxford University. ‘Something Rotten’ is his fifth book.