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Field Marshal, Viscount Slim of Burma (1891-70) was one of the outstanding British and Allied commanders of World War II. Through his conduct of the 1942-45 Burma campaign, he became the only Allied general to defeat a major Japanese Army on the mainland of Asia and to liberate a conquered territory largely through ground fighting. His memoir, Defeat into Victory (1956), is regarded as a classic of its genre. He was Governor-General of Australia from 1953 to 1960 … William …
Jordan served eight years in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment which included operational service as a member of the United Nations Mission to Rwanda in 1995. He currently works for AKE Ltd., a company owned and operated by ex-Special Forces soldiers from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. In his role as Operations Manager for AKE Asia-Pacific, Mr Jordan works closely with the media, non-government organisations and large corporations. He has recently returned from operations in …
Jim Truscott, OAM, is an ex-SAS major currently operating as a corporate crisis practitioner. His 26-year Army career included service with a variety of headquarters, special operations and regional force units. He participated in a number of international expeditions to Borneo to trace the exploits of the World War II Special Reconnaissance Department and was a member of the Bicentennial Everest expedition in 1988 for which he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. … Jim …
Dr Erik B. Villard, a graduate of Occidental College and the University of Washington, is currently a historian for the US Army Center of Military History in Washington DC. He is in the midst of writing the official US Army history of the Vietnam War in the Tết Offensive period, October 1967 - October 1968. … Erik B. …
rakash Mirchandani has worked as an international journalist and media consultant for three decades. He was a BBC correspondent (radio and television) in India and in London for twelve years, before moving to Australia. He was the first Defence correspondent in Australian television and the first accredited correspondent for the ADF. Mr Mirchandani was a founding member of the Defence Media Advisory Group. In 1995 The was awarded the Australian Institute of Management’s award for Excellence in Management …
Colonel Andrew Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Royal Military College, Duntroon and also holds a Graduate Diploma in Defence Studies from Deakin University and a master’s degree from the University of New South Wales. He is currently a PhD. candidate in the Department of Politics, University of New South Wales. He served with the United Nations Mine Clearance Training Team, Pakistan, and was instrumental in the formation of the Australian Defence Force Joint Incident Response Unit, which …
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins, British Army. Biography to be provided. … Tim Collins …
Major General Stuart Graham, AO, DSO, OBE, MC (1920–96), served in the Australian Army for thirty-nine years. He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1938 and retired in 1977 as a major general. He distinguished himself in the Pacific theatre in World War II as a member of the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion and was awarded the Military Cross. In 1967, Major General Graham went to South Vietnam as Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force in Phuoc Tuy province. Major General Graham’s later …
Flight Sergeant Martin Andrew, Royal Australian Air Force, is an external studies student at the Australian Defence Force Academy, where he is writing a dissertation on the operational art of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. His postings include the Australian Joint Warfare Centre and the International Military Liaison Office in Darwin during Operations Warden and Tanager. Flight Sergeant Andrew was a 2002 Affiliate in Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, …