Tony Malkin qualified on retirement to teach English as a foreign language. He has merged that ability with 35 years of practical soldiering experience with the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment.

The British Army

The Parachute Regiment

As an instructor he has taught tactics at the School of Infantry to Non-commissioned Officers and more recently has been the Senior Instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where the future officers of the British Army and some foreign armies, are trained.

The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

In the mid seventies he volunteered to be seconded to the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces where he actively participated in the successful counter-insurgency campaign in the province of Dhofar. As a consequence and from his recent experience as the Defence Attaché to the United Arab Emirates, he is literate in Arabic and speaks the language fluently. In addition he has been attached to the Germany Army for two years as a student at their staff college in Hamburg.  He therefore fully understands the problems associated with learning and studying in a foreign language.  He is a Civil Service qualified German Interpreter.

With a background of three tours of duty with NATO Headquarters he is well placed to teach military English in a multinational context.  He was the operational planner at HQ Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) for NATO’s first overseas peace-keeping mission to Bosnia and was instrumental in developing the UN peace-keeping doctrine from its inception.  He has been involved in counter-terrorism in conventional and intelligence gathering roles in the UK’s terrorist problem in Northern Ireland in both rural and urban environments.

HQ ARRC

He gives travel and security advice to global executives at the International Briefing Centre at Farnham Castle and specialises in cross-cultural briefings for company representatives who, with their families, live and work in the Middle East.