William Reynolds is a Research Associate with the Centre for Grand Strategy, King's College London. He completed his PhD in War Studies in 2023 through the Leverhulme funded project 'Interrogating Visions of a Post-Western World: Interdisciplinary and Interregional Perspectives', with a focus on British Grand Strategy and its policies towards Japan post-1945. William has also lectured on Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Lancaster and been part of a Centre for Grand Strategy-HMG Cabinet Office Strategy Unit project on the 2021 Integrated Review and various questions of statecraft.