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Dr Colin Cockroft is a Senior Principal Engineer and Engineering Fellow at QinetiQ and Engineers Australia. He holds a PhD in hydrogen-based transport, and master’s and honours degrees in electronics and communications engineering. Colin has 20 years’ experience in Defence in special forces and conventional units. He has held senior engineering positions in several defence companies and co-founded an energy consultancy that provided project development services to defence and non-defence clients. In his …

Colonel Robin Smith OBE, CSC is a military officer with significant recent experience in the application of emerging and disruptive technology, including the foundation of the Army’s Robotic & Autonomous Systems Implementation & Coordination Office. He is currently working in Headquarters Space Command. … Robin …

Major Gabrielle Taylor is a Military Police Officer in the Australian Army. She has served as an operations officer for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and as a mentor at the Afghanistan National Army Officers Academy. She is a graduate of the Australian Command and Staff Course, and has been awarded a Bachelor of Business, Master of Project Management, Master of Strategic People Management, and a Master of Military and Defence Studies, specialising in Operational Art. Major Taylor currently …

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, …

Brigadier James Davis joined the Army in 1995. His formative experiences were in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment which he commanded from 2014-2016. He served on operations in East Timor in 2003 and in Iraq in 2008/2009. From 2017 to 2018 he was the liaison officer to the United Kingdom Land Forces. Brigadier Davis’ staff appointments include Army Headquarters as Staff Officer Grade One – the Army Plan, Director of the Chief of Army’s Initiatives Group and Director of Joint Concepts. Brigadier Davis is a graduate …

William Simonds , MA, is an Alumnus of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading, UK; and a serving member of the Canadian Army. … William Simonds …

Dr Ben Zweibelson is a retired US Army infantry officer with multiple combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. His latest book, ‘ Reconceptualizing War ’ is now available through Helion & Co. … Ben Zweibelson …

Dr Aaron P. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Swedish Defence University, and a serving officer in the Australian Army Reserve. He was previously a Public Servant in the Australian Department of Defence. … Aaron P. Jackson …

Colonel Dayton McCarthy CSC  is the Colonel-Campaigning in the G5 Cell, Headquarters 2nd (Australian) Division. He served in the Australian Regular Army from 2005 to 2013 in several regimental, training and staff appointments. Transferring to the Reserves in 2014, he was the Commanding Officer of the 9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment from 2021 to 2022. A defence analyst in his civilian career, Colonel McCarthy is the author of several books and numerous conference papers, articles and book reviews. …

David Stahel is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Canberra. He is the author of numerous historical studies in German military history, especially of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War. He has published seven books with Cambridge University Press, including Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East, Kiev 1941, The Battle for Moscow, Joining Hitler’s Crusade and Hitler’s Panzer Generals. … David …