Lynette Nusbacher

Lynette Nusbacher (born December 17, 1966, known as Aryeh Judah Schoen Nusbacher before 2007 ) is a military historian and strategist appointed Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK. She headed the Strategic Horizons Unit in the Cabinet Office, and since 2011 has been director of the strategy think tank Nusbacher Associates.

Early life
Nusbacher was born on December 17, 1966, in New York City. She was born Aryeh Judah Schoen Nusbacher in an Orthodox Jewish family in Rochester, New York. Nusbacher's father and mother are respectively a physician and a former teacher; committed Zionists who later relocated to Israel. Nusbacher was the oldest of four children; the other three were girls.

Education and career
The family moved across Lake Ontario to Toronto, Canada, to accommodate Nusbacher's enrollment at the University of Toronto. Nusbacher received an honours BA in history and economics at the university in 1988. This was followed by a six-year period holding various administrative positions at the university. After two of Nusbacher's sisters were married in Israel to men who had completed their military service obligation, Nusbacher joined the 48th Highlanders of Canada as a reserve officer. This provided an opportunity for graduate studies toward a master's degree at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC). In 1994, Nusbacher earned an MA in War Studies from the RMCC under Ronald Haycock and Michael Hennessy. Nusbacher's master's thesis was titled "Sweet Irony: The German Roots of Israeli Armoured Doctrine with Special Reference to Operations on the Golan Heights, 1973", showing how the Israel Defense Forces modeled their fighting tactics after the successful operations conducted in North Africa by the German general, Erwin Rommel.

In 1999, Nusbacher became Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Sandhurst in the United Kingdom. Nusbacher received a PhD from the University of Oxford in 2001. Nusbacher attained the rank of captain in the Territorial Army, the UK reserve force.

Publications
Nusbacher has published the book The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314, the children's book War and Conflict (2003), and a paper titled "Civil Supply in the Civil War: Supply of Victuals to the New Model Army on the Naseby Campaign, 1–14 June 1645" in the ''English Historical Review.

Television
Nusbacher appeared on the Crime and Investigation Network's Curious and Unusual Deaths series. Nusbacher was also an historical expert and co-host on the BBC Two game show Time Commanders and appeared as a military expert on the episode "Israel's Six-Day War" of the television series BattleField Detectives and as an expert on English history on the National Geographic television documentary Beyond the Movie - The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Recognition
Nusbacher is listed as one of the 100 "unsung heroes and heroines who make life as a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person better", the annual LGBT list in the United Kingdom by the Independent on Sunday in the newspaper's 2011 and 2012 Pink List.