High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joel S.A. Hayward (born 1964), is a New Zealand-born "noted scholar of war and strategy" who has worked in the United Kingdom since 2004. He is best known for his published books and articles on military matters, including the use of air power, his 2003 biography of Horatio Lord Nelson, and his writing and teaching on the Quranic (Islamic) concepts of war. He was known earlier in his career for a controversy in 2000 over his 1991 M.A. thesis on the historiography of Holocaust denial in which it was charged that the thesis had denied the Holocaust, something he denied. Hayward is Head of Air Power Studies at King`s College London and, as of 1 April 2007, is Dean of the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell. In August 2007 the Royal Air Force appointed him a Director of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies. He is a Professor of Strategy at the Indonesian Defense University and he holds fellowships from the United States Air Force and the Federal Government of Germany.