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Dayton McCarthy

Biography

Lieutenant Colonel Dayton McCarthy is currently the Staff Officer Grade 1 Special Projects in the G5 Cell, Headquarters 2nd (Australian) Division. He served in the Australian Regular Army from 2005 to 2013 in a number of regimental, training and staff appointments. Transferring to the Army Reserves in 2014, he was the Commanding Officer of the 9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment from 2021 to 2022. A defence analyst in his civilian career, LTCOL McCarthy is the author of several books and numerous conference papers, articles and book reviews. He has a Doctor of Philosophy and a Graduate Diploma in Science (Operations Research and Systems) from the University of New South Wales.

Contributions

Title Date Published
Letters and Commentary
Review Essay - Two Paeans to Professionalism
Book Review: Blood and Concrete: 21st Century Conflictin Urban Centers and Megacities
The Worst of Both Worlds - On the Nature and Character of Urban Littoral Combat
The Worst of Both Worlds: An analysis of urban littoral combat
Holding the Door Open
‘Holding the Door Open’ - Securing a Point of Entry to Facilitate Littoral Manoeuvre in the Near Region - Part One
‘Holding the Door Open’ – Securing a Point of Entry to Facilitate Littoral Manoeuvre in the Near Region’ - Part Two
‘No Other System Could Have Achieved the Result’
Land Power Library - General Walter Krueger
The First Half Measures
Book Review - Strategy in Crisis
Book Review - Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History by Craig Stockings (ed)
Preliminary Moves: The Royal Military College and the Professionalisation of the Officer Corps, 1910–1947
Review Essay - Zombie Myths of Australian Military History – The Ten Myths That Will Not Die by Craig Stockings (ed)
Big Books on ‘Small Wars’: Milestones or Millstones in Counterinsurgency Thinking?

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