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Dr David Kilcullen is Professor of International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra and CEO of the analysis firm Cordillera Applications Group. Professor Kilcullen is a theorist and practitioner of guerrilla and unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, with operational experience over 25 years with the Australian and U.S. governments as an infantry officer, intelligence analyst, policy adviser and diplomat. He served in Iraq as senior counterinsurgency advisor to Multinational …
Graeme Dunk has completed a PhD on defence industry sovereignty at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University. He is Head of Strategy at Shoal Group, a defence digital engineering company. … Graeme Dunk …
Richard Brabin-Smith AO is honorary professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University. His earlier positions in the Department of Defence included Chief Defence Scientist and Deputy Secretary for Strategic Policy. He has had an interest in warning time and force expansion for much of the past 50 years. … Richard …
Brigadier Shane Gabriel graduated from the Royal Military College in 1987 as an RAAF officer. He subsequently served a short service commission with the RAF Regiment in the UK before transferring to the Australian Army as an Infantry Officer. He served for 25 years in regimental, instructional and staff roles before transition to the Reserve in 2020. He was the Commanding Officer, Seventh Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment from re-raising in December 2006 to December 2009, including the Mentor and …
Brigadier Sean Parkes, DSC, DSM is currently serving as the Deputy G7 of the Australian Army. He holds authorities and responsibilities on behalf of the Commander Forces Command (Army G7) for the Australian Army and Integrated Training System. His operational service includes multiple deployments to East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. Brigadier Parkes was the inaugural Commandant of the Defence Special Operations Training and Education Centre for three years, raising Army’s newest Training Centre. He …
Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era Editor : Benjamin Armstrong Naval Institute Press , Annapolis, 2013. 179 pp Reviewed By : Jennifer Parker Benjamin F. Armstrong’s 21 st Century Mahan revisits the works of Rear-Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, an influential American maritime strategist whose ideas shaped maritime thinking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – and arguably the 21st. Mahan is best known for the often quoted, yet impenetrably written ‘The Influence of Sea Power Upon …
Jennifer Parker is an expert associate at the National Security College, Australian National University, an adjunct fellow at the University of New South Wales and Nancy Bentley Associate Fellow in Indo-Pacific Maritime Affairs at the Council on Geostrategy. Jennifer has over 20 years' experience in the Australian Department of Defence working in a broad range of operational and capability areas. … Jennifer …
The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor by Paul Dickson Grove Atlantic, 2020, 416 pp Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8021-5869-7 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8021-4767-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8021-4768-4 Reviewed by: McLeod Wood Paul Dickson has been a freelance writer since 1968 and has written historical works on American interwar slang ( War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases Since the Civil War ) and the Cold War ( Sputnik: The Shock of the Century ), to list a few. His …
Lieutenant Chris Thorburn is a Platoon Commander at 1st Recruit Training Battalion. He was formerly the Direct Fire and Support Weapons Platoon Commander at the Fifth Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the Australian National University. … Chris …
Stefan Meisiek is Deputy Head of Discipline and Associate Professor in the Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship discipline at the University of Sydney Business School. He researches innovation, change and learning in organisations and has a particular interest in how managerial choices enable or constrain learning and innovation efforts. This includes motivating organisational members for inquiry into pernicious problems, challenging assumptions, and giving licence for dreaming, imagining, and …