Robert Engen

Dr Robert C Engen is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Deakin University’s Centre for Future Defence and National Security, attached to the Australian War College in Canberra. A specialist in professional military education, he has previously taught at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto and RMC Canada. He is the author of Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War and Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, co-author of Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada’s First World War, and lead editor of Why We Fight: New/Reflections on the Human Dimension of Warfare, all from McGill-Queen’s University Press. He is the official regimental historian for Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. His views are personal and do not reflect the views of the Australian Defence Force or the Australian War College.