Jim Molan

Major General Andrew James ‘Jim’ Molan, AO, DSC, joined the Army in 1968 and retired in 2008. Major General Molan has served with a number of Infantry battalions, including 6RAR as Commanding Officer. He has lived in Indonesia for five years, first as the Army Attache and then as the Defence Attache during the fall of Suharto and the Interfet period, for which he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia. He has commanded both 1 Brigade and 1 Division, and was the commander of the Australian Defence College. Major General Molan deployed to Iraq in 2004 to serve for a year as Chief of Operations of the Coalition forces. For command and leadership in action he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the Australian Government and the Legion of Merit by the United States Government. His book Running the War in Iraq is a bestseller and is in its second printing. In July 2009, he was awarded ‘2009 Australian Thinker of the Year’.