John Blaxland

Dr John Blaxland is Director of the ANU North America Liaison Office and Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. A former Australian military intelligence officer, he is a trusted and highly regarded historian who has authored or co-authored over a dozen broad-ranging works on international, military and security affairs. He is also an occasional media commentator.

He has written or co-authored a range of books including Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber (UNSW Press, 2023); The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations (Routledge, 2021); Niche Wars: Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–2014 (ANU Press, 2020); In from the Cold: Reflections on Australia’s Korean War (ANU Press, 2020); A Geostrategic SWOT Analysis for Australia (ANU, SDSC, 2019); The Secret Cold War (Allen & Unwin, 2016); East Timor Intervention (MUP, 2015); The Protest Years (Allen & Unwin, 2015); The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (Cambridge, 2014): Strategic Cousins: Australian and Canadian Expeditionary Forces and the British and American Empires (MQUP, 2006); Signals: Swift and Sure (RASigs Assoc, 1998); and Organising an Army: The Australian Experience, 1957–1965 (ANU, SDSC, 1989).