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On the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom on 19 March 2003, the Commanding Officer of the British Army’s 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins, addressed his 800 soldiers at Fort Blair Mayne desert camp, some 20 miles south of the Iraqi border. The rousing speech was commended by the Prince of Wales and was circulated by the White House. It is published here with the kind permission of the British Information Services. 1 We go to liberate, not to conquer. We will not fly our …
The phrases niche force or niche capability are currently being bandied about as a way to describe current Australian contributions to coalition operations. In a military, if not political, sense this concept may lead to the stagnation of the Army’s ability to conduct military operations. The concept of a ‘niche force’ is founded on the notion that it is appropriate to make force contributions whose specific capabilities are disproportionate to the actual investment of resources and personnel. This …
A History of Intelligence Penguin Press, New York, 2018, 948 pp Paperback ISBN: 9780140285321 eBook ISBN: 9780241305225 Author : Christopher Andrew Reviewed By : Dejan Mujkanovic Christopher Andrew's The Secret World: A History of Intelligence provides an overview of the evolution of intelligence tradecraft and related disciplines throughout history by examining the relevance of intelligence to decision-making from ancient to modern eras. Andrew is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary …
Lieutenant Colonel Dejan Mujkanovic is an Australian Army officer. Dejan has extensive experiences in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, commanding across echelons at Battalion-level and below. His operational experiences include deployment to East Timor as well as several deployments to Afghanistan. … Dejan …
Martin Sheehan, Strategic and International Policy Division, Department of Defence. Biography to be provided. … Martin Sheehan …
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. …