Lynette Nusbacher

Lynette Nusbacher (born December 17, 1966, formerly known as Aryeh Judah Schoen Nusbacher) 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. She was listed as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in the United Kingdom by the Independent on Sunday in the newspaper's 2011 and 2012 Pink List.
Early life
Nusbacher was born as Aryeh Judah Schoen Nusbacher on December 17, 1966, in New York City to an Orthodox Jewish family, and grew up in Rochester, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario. Nusbacher's father is a physician who later relocated to Israel.
Education and career
Nusbacher received an honours BA in history and economics at the University of Toronto in 1988, studying under Northrop Frye, John Leyerle, Thayron Sandquist and Steven Muhlberger. This was followed by a six-year period holding various positions at the University of Toronto, and graduate studies toward a master's degree. In 1994, Nusbacher earned an MA in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada under Ronald Haycock and Michael Hennessy. Nusbacher's master's thesis was titled "The German Roots of Israeli Armoured Doctrine". the children's book War and Conflict, 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 was a consultant for the PBS series Ground War and 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.
Personal life
Nusbacher lived life as a male until a 2007 gender change. Nusbacher became a reader of the Torah at Guildford Synagogue.<ref name=Palgrave/>

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