Captain Scott Klima enlisted into the Army in January 2004. Graduating from the Royal Military College – Duntroon in 2005 he was posted to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and deployed to Iraq with Security Detachment 10 as a Troop Leader and Afghanistan with the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force 1 as the Combat Team Second in Command, returning to Afghanistan as the Chief of Operations for Combined Team Uruzgan 1. He is currently posted as the Senior Instructor Gunnery Wing, School of Armour and is studying …

Warrant Officer Class Two Dallas Sharp is an Australian Intelligence Corps soldier and is currently posted to Headquarters 1st Division. He has been involved in the PSYOPS capability for the past five years, attending the Psychological Operations Officer Course at the John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School in 2006, prior to commencing exchange within the then 4th Psychological Operations Group, both at Fort Bragg, NC. He deployed to Iraq as the PSYOPS Detachment 2IC, supporting OBG(W)-2 and …

Lieutenant Colonel Scott Gills trained at ADFA and RMC Duntroon between 1991 and 1994. His operational experience includes deployments to Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is currently posted to the J2 Branch of the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. … Scott …

Brigadier David Luhrs is the Commandant of the Royal Military College of Australia. His career has spanned 32 years, commencing as an Army Apprentice Carpenter and Joiner and including multiple training, combat and construction engineer appointments. He has served on the staff in Defence and Army Headquarters, commanded at each troop, squadron, unit and formation level, and seen operational service in Namibia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a graduate of the Southern Cross University, the Australian Army …

Peter J Munson is a Marine officer, KC-130 pilot, and Middle East Foreign Area Officer currently assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command. He is the author of two books, Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy (Potomac, 2009) and War, Welfare, and Democracy: Rethinking America’s Quest for the End of History (Potomac, forthcoming in fall 2012). A frequent contributor to multiple journals and blogs, including his own ( http://peterjmunson.blogspot.com ), he …

Dr Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute. Jack works closely with the British military on the development of concepts of operation, assessments of the future operating environment, and conducts operational analysis of contemporary conflicts. Jack’s PhD examined the evolution of Britain’s policy responses to civil war in the early twentieth century. Jack has worked extensively on Ukraine, Iraq, Yemen, Mali, Rwanda, and further afield. Jack is a Global …

Major David Caligari is an infantry officer who has served in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, The Royal Australian Regiment. He has commanded at platoon and company level, including as commander Ready Combat Team and commander Ground Combat Element for the Australian Amphibious Force. He served as the 2019 aide-de-camp to the 1st Division Commander, planned the 2020 NATO response to COVID-19 in Afghanistan as the acting Director of Current Operations, and was the operations officer of the Ready Battle …

Colonel John Pearse , CSM is a SERCAT 5 Officer who has served most of his career in the armoured corps. He has a passion for force integration across the Total Workforce System and is currently the Director of Total Workforce Training at HQ FORCOMD. He has Master degrees in Military and Defence Studies from the Australian National University and in National Security and Strategy from Deakin University. John is a Fellow of the Defence Strategic Studies Centre. … John …

Major General Chris Field, @ChrisFieldAus , serves as an Australian Army Officer in Headquarters Australian Defence Force. … Chris Field …

Matt Brown, Deputy Editor, International News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Between July 2012 and July 2018 Matt was based in Jerusalem and Beirut as Middle East Correspondent for the ABC. His work focused on the war on the Islamic State group and conflict and instability in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Egypt. … Matt …