Aaron P. Jackson

Lieutenant Colonel Aaron P Jackson PhD is Senior Research Officer at the Australian Army Research Centre. A SERCAT 5 (i.e., part time) Infantry officer, he is a former Commanding Officer of 10th/27th Battalion, The Royal South Australia Regiment. He has deployed on Operation Okra (Iraq), Operation Astute (Timor Leste), Operation Resolute (Australian border security), and Operation COVID-19 Assist (domestic emergency response). In his civilian employment, Dr Jackson is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Swedish Defence University in Stockholm, where he specialises in researching and teaching joint operational art, design and planning. His latest book, Military Design Thinking: An Historical and Paradigmatic Analysis, is available through Routledge.