Mick Ryan
Biography
MAJGEN Mick Ryan spent 35 years in the Australian Army and commanded at troop, squadron, regiment, task force and brigade levels. He served in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. Mick has published three books since 2022: War Transformed (2022), White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan (2023), and The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire (2024). Mick is a strategic advisor to several companies including U.S. drone company Skydio, the Washington DC-based Special Competitive Studies Project, Australia’s Beaten Zone defence venture capital company, the Useful Fiction company, and the UK-based Janes.
Mick is the inaugural Senior Fellow for Military Studies at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC.
Contributions
| Title | Date Published | Content Type |
|---|---|---|
| Preparing for Complexity: The Case for an Expeditionary Task Force in the Australian Army of 2020 | Journal article | |
| Finding Alligators: The Future of Network-centric Warfare | Journal article | |
| The Other Side of the COIN: Reconstruction Operations in Southern Afghanistan | Journal article | |
| Implementing an Adaptive Approach in Non-Kinetic Counterinsurgency Operations | Journal article | |
| The Ryan Review | Publication | |
| Robosoldiers: Human-Machine Teaming and a New Era of Warfare | Outcome | |
| Measuring Success and Failure in an ‘Adaptive’ Army | Journal article | |
| Translating Ukraine Lessons for the Pacific Theatre | Publication |
