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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 …
By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic Champions Written by: Richard Cohen, The Modern Library, New York, 2002, ISBN: 9780812969665, 519pp. Review Essay by: Michael Evans It is well known that sword fighting is an excellent training ground for developing the reflexes of military professionals. In 1954, the International Council for Military Sports placed fencing at the top of recommended sports for military elites, particularly modern air-combat pilots. …
To The Editors, I have just commenced reading the new Australian Army Journal . I note that the Introduction states that the AAJ is to be ‘a professional Journal in which officers can record their ideas, views and experiences’. The Introduction goes on to state that ‘the AAJ welcomes articles, review essays and letters from all serving officers’. Are these phrases meant to suggest that the Army’s enlisted soldiers will never have anything to offer the revived journal? Warrant Officer M. Levine Regimental …
Future Wars: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy Written by: Dennis E. Showalter (ed.), Imprint Publications, Chicago, 2002, ISBN: 9781879176393, 184pp. Reviewed by: Major Russell Parkin, Australian Defence College, Weston Creek Previous volumes of the United States Air Force Academy’s Military History Symposium Series have produced some excellent studies. Volume 7 in the series contains a collection of essays on the subject of coalition warfare that very successfully fulfil Sir Michael Howard’s …
Redcoats to Cams: A History of Australian Infantry 1788–2001 Written by: Ian Kuring, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, NSW, 2003, ISBN: 9781876439996, 572pp. Reviewed by: Alan Ryan, Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre Although this book will not be available until just before Christmas, its value to the Army is such that it is worth providing an advance review. The reviewer has been fortunate enough to receive the page proofs of the book and has no hesitation in …
The Once and Future Army: A History of the Citizen Military Forces 1947–1974 Written by: Dayton McCarthy, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003, ISBN: 9780195515695, 303pp. Reviewed by: Alan Ryan, Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre This excellent book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how our present-day Army came to be. In that sense it is not only a history of the Army’s reserve forces since the end of World War II, but it is also an account of how the Army …
Military Stress and Performance: the Australian Defence Force Experience Written by: George E. Kearney, Mark Creamer, Ric Marshall and Anne Goyne (eds), Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne, 2003, ISBN: 9780522850543, 294pp. Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel David Schmidtchen, Directorate of Retention Policy, Defence Personnel Executive, Canberra Of the 52 000 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel who served in Vietnam between 1962 and 1972, approximately 3000 were either killed or wounded …
