Introduction: Culture, heritage, conflict -- Heritage and the (re)shaping of social identities in conflict cycles : anchor or quicksand? / Dacia Viejo Rose -- Napoleon, savants, and the description de l'Égypte : capturing history / Andrew Shortland -- Military cultural property protection from Hague 1907 to Hague 1954 / Nigel Pollard -- Cultural property protection in the 21st century : the privilege of working with the most deployed division / Laurie Rush -- Islamic terrorist targeting of contemporary Western culture : 'deviant chaos' / Suzanne Raine -- The Russian weaponization of cultural heritage / Mark Dunkley and Timothy Clack -- Heritage as focus in US-Iran tensions : implications for aspects of culture and power in modern warfare / Timothy Clack, Mark Dunkley, Toby Gane, and Lee Rotherham -- Museums and the restitution of 'spoils of war' / Jacques Schuhmacher -- Cultural property protection : the work of the Blue Shield / Peter Stone -- Cultural heritage and peacebuilding in Rakhine State, Myanmar / Etienne Berges -- An excavation of the Bullecourt battlefield : from mud through blood to the green fields beyond? / Richard Osgood -- Integrating cultural heritage into civil affairs operations : reinventing the monuments men and women for the 21st century force / Colonel Scott DeJesse and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Delacruz -- Rescuing heritage in 'natural' disasters / Corine Wegener -- Culture, heritage, security : an interview with Colonel Rosie Stone, Captain Mark Waring, Major Anne Seton-Sykes, and Major Luke Wattam / Timothy Clack and Mark Dunkley.