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Michael Evans

Biography

Michael Evans is the General Sir Francis Hassett Chair of Military Studies at the Australian Defence College and a Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University in Victoria. He is a former Head of the Australian Army’s Land Warfare Studies Centre at the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He has held fellowships at King’s College London and at the universities of York, Cape Town and New South Wales and is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the New Zealand Defence Force Command and Staff College. Professor Evans’ is widely published in Australia and internationally and is a recipient of the US Naval War College Foundation’s Hugh G Nott Award, and of the US Army War College Foundation’s Elihu Root Prize and is responsible for the delivery of the Australian Defence Department’s Apollo (Future War Analysis) Course.

(Last updated: December 2017)

Contributions

Title Date Published
Of Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds: Explaining the Bush Doctrine and the Rise of Military Pre-emption
Review Essay - The Feel of Steel: The History of Swordsmanship
Towards an Australian Way of War: Culture, Politics and Strategy, 1901–2004
Book Review - Globalisation and the New Terror: The Asia Pacific Dimension
Book Review - Field Artillery and Firepower
Book Review - Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age
Review Essay - Cities Without Joy: Urban Warfare in the 21st Century
Understanding Suicide
From Breitenfeld to Baghdad: Perspectives on Combined Arms Warfare
Australia and the Revolution in Military Affairs
From Deakin to Dibb: The Army and the Making of Australian Strategy in the 20th Century
From Legend to Learning: Gallipoli and the Military Revolution of World War I
Conventional Deterrence in the Australian Strategic Context
The Role of the Australian Army in a Maritime Concept of Strategy
The Tyranny Of Dissonance: Australia's Strategic Culture And Way Of War 1901-2005
The Continental School Of Strategy: The Past, Present And Future Of Land Power
Developing Australia's Maritime Concept Of Strategy: Lessons from the Ambon Disaster of 1942
Forward From The Past: The Development Of Australian Army Doctrine, 1972-Present
The Third Way: Towards an Australian Maritime Strategy for the Twenty-first Century
The Third Way: Towards an Australian Maritime Strategy for the Twenty-first Century