Lieutenant General David Morrison, AO took up his appointment as Chief of Army in June 2011. He joined the Army in 1979 and graduated from the Officer Cadet School, Portsea to the Royal Australian Infantry Corps. Between 1980 and 1991 he held a variety of regimental positions including Australian Instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK in 1987–1988. He was deployed to Bougainville as part of Operation LAGOON in 1994, and in 1999 took up the position of Colonel Operations, Headquarters …

Craig Stockings is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. His areas of academic interest concern general and Australian military history and operational analysis. He has recently published a history of the army cadet movement in Australia entitled The Torch and the Sword (2007), and will soon release an in-depth study of the First Libyan Campaign in North Africa 1940-41 entitled Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac (2009). … Craig …

Dr Jean Bou is a widely published historian and a member of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, where his responsibilities have included convening and teaching courses for a decade at the Australian War College. He was part of the team that produced the multi-volume Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations and he wrote the history of the ADF’s deployment to Rwanda, among others. He is a Captain in the Australian Army …

Robert C Engen  is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Deakin University’s Centre for Future Defence and National Security, attached to the Australian War College in Canberra. A specialist in professional military education, he has previously taught at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto and RMC Canada. He is the author of Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War and Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army , co-author of Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History …

Dr Gorana Grgić is a Senior Scientist in Transatlantic Security at the ETH Zürich’s Center for Security Studies and Senior Lecturer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. She is also an Expert Associate with the National Security College at the Australian National University. In recent years, she was a Research Fellow in Grand Strategy at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security (2022-2023), Partners Across the Globe Research Fellow at the NATO Defense College (2021) …

Dr Sascha Nanlohy is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney’s School of Social and Political Sciences and Research Fellow at the Institute for Economics and Peace. His research focuses on external influences on genocide. He is a Research Associate with Atrocity Forecasting Project and consultant with the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. He has previously worked as a Consultant for the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust …

Dr Michael O’Keefe is Director of the Master of International Relations at La Trobe University. Michael’s research interests focus on Australian foreign policy, and Pacific foreign policies (especially Fiji). His current projects focus on Australia’s ‘Step Up’ in the Pacific, Fiji’s peacekeeping strategy and military diplomacy. He undertakes a wide range of consultancies in the Pacific and has taught in Fiji and Japan. Michael features regularly in media such as the ABC’s 7.30 Report and Insiders, ABC 774, …

Colonel John Hutcheson is an Infantry Officer in the Australian Army who has served in a number of battalions and commanded the integrated 25th/49th Battalion Royal Queensland Regiment (Motor). During the period March–August 2004 he commanded Combined Joint Task Force 635 in the Solomon Islands as part of Operation HELPEM FREN, and in the second half of 2007 was promoted to honorary brigadier to command Joint Task Force 631 in Timor Leste as part of Operation ASTUTE. Colonel Hutcheson is currently the …

Major PJ Beor is currently the officer commanding 109 Signals Squadron. A career Reservist, in his civilian job he is the Manager of Engineering Services at the Water Corporation of Western Australia. Prior to commanding 109 he was the Officer Commanding 113 Field Workshop (twice). Yes, he is a RAEME officer. … P J …

Captain Anthony Bamford , Royal Australian Armoured Corps, commissioned from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in December 2006. He has served with the 1st Armoured Regiment as a Troop Leader, Squadron Second in Command and most recently as Adjutant. Captain Bamford has represented the Australian Defence Force on exchange with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (UK, 2008) and has deployed on Operation SLIPPER as a PMV Troop Leader (2009). He is currently a Staff Officer in the Operations Cell within …