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Dr Andrew Maher is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He has been a postgraduate lecturer on irregular warfare and special operations for over five years and has specialised on the analysis of proxy warfare. His forthcoming book Riding Tigers: The Strategic Logic of Proxy Warfare (2025) examines the use of warfare as a component of strategic competition. Dr Maher has also taught with Arizona State University, Joint Special Operations University and NATO Special Operations …
Dr Charles Miller is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the Australian National University. He received his PhD in political science from Duke University in 2013. He has published on a number of security topics, including combat motivation in World Politics and a dataset of historical conflict events (the Historical Conflict Event Dataset, or HCED) in the Journal of Conflict Resolution . … Charles …
Discussions of strategy too often descend rapidly from framing and defining the ‘ends’ to single-minded discourse on ‘means’. Indeed, the focus is often almost exclusively on ‘means’ … with ‘means’ being synonymous with vehicles and equipment. [1] Chief of the Australian Army, 15 May 2024 Introduction In this article I find a conceptual gap in Defence strategic policy directing the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to conduct littoral manoeuvre in Australia’s northern approaches. [2] After an earlier career …
Dr Mark O’Neill is a defence and national security professional with experience in the military, policy, non-government, academia and think tank sectors. He has had operational deployments in Somalia, Mozambique, Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006 Mark was the first Chief of Army Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales. … Mark …
Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75 Written by: Tristan Moss Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781108182638, 284pp Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill Dr Tristan Moss is currently a researcher on the Official Histories of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor at the Australian War Memorial and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is also a previous winner of the C. E. W. Bean Prize for Military …
War, Strategy and History. Essays in honour of Professor Robert O’Neill Edited by: Daniel Marston and Tamara Leahy, ANU Press, 2016, ISBN: 9781760460235, 312 pp, Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill War, Strategy and History is an apt title for this Festschrift honouring the influential career of soldier, strategist and historian, Professor Robert (‘Bob’) O’Neill. From Intelligence Officer of the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5 RAR) in South Vietnam in 1966–67; to involvement with …
Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Written by: Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian (eds), Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2008, ISBN: 9781849081641, 304 pp. Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian have much more in common than editorship of this topical anthology. They completed their doctoral studies at Oxford under the supervision of Professor Robert O’Neill (known to many readers of this journal, not only as a former Australian Army officer but also as a …
Dr Zena Assaad is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. She has held fellowships with the Australian Army Research Centre and Trusted Autonomous Systems. Her research explores the safety of human-machine teaming and the regulation and assurance of autonomous and AI systems. Dr Assaad is a member of the expert advisory group for the global commission on responsible AI in the military domain. … Zena …
Dr Thomas J Rogers is a historian at the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre. He has previously worked as a historian at the Australian National University, the Australian War Memorial and the University of Melbourne. … Thomas Rogers …
Megan Hamilton is a PhD candidate in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London. She holds history degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, those being largely focused on the Canadian experience of the world wars. Her current research is an Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project at King’s College London and the Imperial War Museum that studies World War II army training across the British Empire. … Megan …