Major Callum Gaskell
Deterrence Futures Fellow
Royal Marines Officer, Royal Navy
Biography
Major Callum Gaskell joined the Royal Marines in 2016 and has served on global deployments as a Troop Commander, Fire Support Group Commander and Company Second in Command amongst other positions. Between 2023-2025 he was employed as a security adviser for UK nuclear deterrence operations and the AUKUS programme. His current role is coordinating cyber and electronic warfare effects in support of Royal Navy operations.
Callum holds a BScEcon in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, an MA in International Relations from Queen Mary University London, and is a current PhD student at Keele University. His PhD research is centred on how the use of the space domain in the Ukraine conflict will affect global nuclear deterrence.
