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Captain G. A. Chisnall is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force School of Languages, where he studied Khmer. He served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, with the International Force in East Timor. Other postings include the 25th/49th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment and deployment as a battalion adviser in Sierra Leone with the International Military Advisory Training Team from August 2002 to March 2003. …
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Fortune served as a soldier in the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, before being selected for service in the Special Air Service Regiment. He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1989, and was posted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on graduation. He returned to the Special Air Service Regiment, was posted on exchange to the United States Special Forces in 1996, and assumed command of the 2nd Special Air Service Squadron on his return. A graduate …
John Carroll is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne and author of Terror: A Meditation on the Meaning of September 11. He has degrees in mathematics, economics and sociology from the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. Prof. Carroll is the author of numerous books, essays and articles, and delivered one of the Alfred Deakin lectures in 2001. His work focuses on modern Western society and, in particular, on the forces of social integration and disintegration. … John …
General Peter Cosgrove, AC, MC, was the Chief of the Defence Force. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, he has held many appointments throughout his career, including Commandant of the Infantry Centre, the Australian Defence Warfare Centre and the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He has commanded the 6th Brigade and the 1st Division and has seen active service in Vietnam. As Commander of the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, General Cosgrove led the International Force in East Timor in …
Dr Christopher Flaherty worked as a lawyer and Australian Aboriginal ethnographer before moving to the University of Melbourne to take up a position as a researcher. He has held appointments in the Department of Defence since 2000, and received his doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 2002. … Christopher …
Living by the Sword? The Ethics of Armed Intervention Written by: Tom Frame, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2004, ISBN: 9780868405193, 278pp. Reviewed by: Christian Enemark, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus admonished his disciple Peter: ‘All who live by the sword will die by the sword’. For centuries, theologians have debated what Jesus really meant by this statement in order to determine the moral status of those who engage in armed …
Globalisation and the New Terror: The Asia Pacific Dimension Written by: David Martin Jones (ed.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK,2004, ISBN: 9781845427771, xv + 316pp. Reviewed by: Michael Evans, Head of the Land Warfare Studies Centre and coeditor of the AAJ. The study of terrorism is a field that often lends itself to sensationalism and instant books based on breathless narrative and journalistic impression. None of these features characterises Globalisation and the New Terror . On the contrary, the …
Future Armies, Future Challenges: Land Warfare in the Information Age Written by: Michael Evans, Russell Parkin and Alan Ryan (eds), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004, paperback, ISBN: 9781865086262, 370pp. Reviewed by: Professor Jeffrey Grey, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. There is an art to editing conference proceedings, which too often when published are less than the sum of their parts. They often date quickly, and it seems strange that, in the era of the Internet, …
Surprise, Security and the American Experience Written by: John Lewis Gaddis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004, ISBN: 9780674011748, 150pp. Reviewed by: Russell Parkin, Senior Research Fellow at the Land Warfare Studies Centre and coeditor of the AAJ. At the end of the Cold War, the American scholar, Walter Russell Meade, wrote a book entitled Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World . A key thesis of Meade’s book was based on the identification of four …
Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age Written by: Wayne Michael Hall, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2003, ISBN: 9781591143505, 219pp. Reviewed by: Michael Evans, Head of the Land Warfare Studies Centre and coeditor of the AAJ. In this interesting and stimulating study, author Wayne Michael Hall—a retired American brigadier general who directed the US Army’s Intelligence XXI study—argues that, because of the ascent of the digital age, the face of battle is rapidly changing. Increasingly, the …
