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Colonel E. G. Keogh, Royal Australian Infantry (Retd), was the founding Editor of the Australian Army Journal in 1948. He is also the author of numerous articles and books, including Suez to Aleppo and The River in the Desert . … E. G. Keogh …
Lieutenant Colonel Shaun Fletcher is currently posted to LHQ as the SO1 HLTH. He is also Deputy Head of Corps RAAMC and the Australian National HSS representative for ABCA. LTCOL Fletcher has served on several deployments and for his work managing wounded Coalition soldiers in 2001/02, Shaun was awarded both the United States Army Achievement Medal and the United States Meritorious Service Medal. … Shaun …
Max Boot is Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council for Foreign Relations, based in the United States. He is an Award-winning author and former Editor for the Wall Street Journal, and was named one of ‘the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy’ by the World Affairs Councils of America in 2004. … Max …
Contemporary Perspectives on Private Military Contractors Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War Written by: Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007, ISBN: 9781403981929, 274pp. Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Written by: Jeremy Scahill, Serpent’s Tail, London, 2007, ISBN: 9781568583945, 438pp. Reviewed by: Antony Trentini The role of private contractors in war is no longer considered solely in terms of the …
Vietnam: The Australian War Written by: Paul Ham, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2007, ISBN: 9780732282370, 813 pp. Reviewed by: Brigadier John Essex-Clark (Retd) The Australian reading public have been presented over the past few years with books about Australia’s military history. Paul Ham, who previously authored Kokoda , has now contributed again with another blockbuster and tour de force in Vietnam . Like his previous book, this is a weighty tome, figuratively and literally, with 813 punchy pages including …
The Torch and the Sword: A History of the Army Cadet Movement in Australia Written by: Craig Stockings, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2007, ISBN: 9780868408385, 328pp. Reviewed by: Lieutenant General John Coates (Retd) For those among the reading audience who were never school cadets, this book is unlikely to be a riveting read. It is a subject that has not been handled comprehensively before, and as part of the frequently febrile defence debate, it deserves its place in Australia’s military and social history. …
Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon Written by: Bernard Rougier, Harvard University Press, Cambridge: Massachusetts, 2007, ISBN: 9780674025295, 298 pp. Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Jason Thomas This is not a text that will find its way onto the shelves of your local bookshop, though the reason is not because it has a title that raised a few eyebrows when I carried it onto some domestic airline flights. Bernard Rougier is a French academic who appears to have spent …
Taken By Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II Written by: J Robert Lilly, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007, ISBN: 9780230506473, 272 pp. Reviewed by: Narelle Biedermann Reading a book that discusses rape so confrontingly and transparently in any context makes for a challenging and often difficult read. Sociologist and academic J. Robert Lilly sets himself an extraordinary task to make this unpalatable and highly sensitive topic approachable, and surprisingly, manages to do this …
