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Ben McDevitt is currently CEO of the CrimTrac Agency. Previously, Ben served as a member of the Australian Federal Police for 22 years, rising to the rank of Assistant Commissioner. In 1997 Ben fulfilled the role of Operations Superintendent with the United Nations civilian police in Cyprus and in 1998 he served as a police advisor to the multi-national Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group. Ben oversaw the Australian Federal Police involvement in the joint investigation into the Bali bombings in October …
Professor Jeremy Black MBE studied at Queens College Cambridge, St John’s College, Oxford, and Merton College, also at Oxford. He joined the University of Durham in the 1980s, gained his PhD and became a professor there in the early 1990s. He is currently at Exeter University where he has an established chair in history. Professor Black’s research focuses on early modern British and continental European history and he is a leading specialist on military revolution. He is the author of forty-six books, the …
Currently a Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, Professor Tow was Professor of International Relations at both the University of Queensland and at Griffith University. Professor Tow has worked at the University of Southern California, been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and a Visiting Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He is the author of several books, including Asia Pacific Strategic Relations: …
Major General Ian Gordon, AO, graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1973, undertaking a range of regimental and technical staff appointments, including the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham, UK. He served as Commandant of the Army Command and Staff College; as Director General Personnel – Army; as Deputy Commander, United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET); and as Commander, Training Command – Army. He assumed his current appointment as Deputy Chief of the …
Mick Slater joined the Australian Army in 1978 and completed his officer training at the Officer Cadet School, Portsea. He undertook a variety of infantry regimental and instructional postings, including 8/9 RAR, 1 RAR, 2/4 RAR, the Infantry School Singleton and at the Canadian Forces Combined Arms School. He has also served overseas on the United States 3rd Army Headquarters and is a graduate of the US Army War College. Brigadier Slater commanded 2 RAR in East Timor during the initial days of INTERFET, …
The Cambridge History of Warfare Edited by: Geoffrey Parker, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN: 9780521618953, 432pp. Reviewed by: Anthony Robinson, FDI Associate, Canberra With every major conflict, there is a temporary period when titles that focus on war and conflict move from the back of the bookstore to the front. Many of these works, while valuable by themselves, often look at one conflict and sometimes one battle without considering the evolution of warfare. Placing individual …
Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice Written by: Colin S. Gray, Routledge, London, 2006, ISBN: 9780415386357, 234pp. Reviewed By: Lieutenant Colonel Gav Reynolds, Senior Military Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre With twenty books and three hundred articles to his credit, Colin Gray’s name has become synonymous with the analysis of strategy. It must surely have been a daunting task to select eleven essays from his existing collection and use an unpublished twelfth to summarise his …
General Peter Cosgrove: My Story Written by: General Peter Cosgrove, Harper Collins Publishers, NSW, 2006, ISBN: 9780732283841, 468pp. Reviewed by: Dr Albert Palazzo, Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre The writing of autobiography is a problematic endeavour. The author’s closeness to his subject makes attaining objectivity almost impossible and can thus call into question the work’s value and viewpoint. This is especially true when public records will remain closed for many years, …
The Partnership: The Inside Story of the US–Australian Alliance Under Bush and Howard Written by: Greg Sheridan, University of New South Wales Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780868409221, 260pp. Reviewed by : Bree Larkham, Researcher, Land Warfare Studies Centre From its inception in 1951, the debate in Australia about ANZUS has been conducted broadly between two forces. There are those who oppose the alliance on the grounds that it is a manifestation of an ingrained Australian cringe to a distant imperial …
