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Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75 Written by: Tristan Moss Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781108182638, 284pp Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill Dr Tristan Moss is currently a researcher on the Official Histories of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor at the Australian War Memorial and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is also a previous winner of the C. E. W. Bean Prize for Military …
War, Strategy and History. Essays in honour of Professor Robert O’Neill Edited by: Daniel Marston and Tamara Leahy, ANU Press, 2016, ISBN: 9781760460235, 312 pp, Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill War, Strategy and History is an apt title for this Festschrift honouring the influential career of soldier, strategist and historian, Professor Robert (‘Bob’) O’Neill. From Intelligence Officer of the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5 RAR) in South Vietnam in 1966–67; to involvement with …
Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Written by: Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian (eds), Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2008, ISBN: 9781849081641, 304 pp. Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian have much more in common than editorship of this topical anthology. They completed their doctoral studies at Oxford under the supervision of Professor Robert O’Neill (known to many readers of this journal, not only as a former Australian Army officer but also as a …
The Prussian-German Origins and Application of Mission Command Introduction Part of the problem for any military absorbing or adopting a foreign concept or methodology is that the significance and meaning are consciously or unconsciously filtered organisationally and culturally to become at best a hybrid of the original. Imported ideas can also clash with existing culture, while challenging long-established norms, resulting in compromises that pervert the original intention. The Anglo-American world’s …
The Utility of Mission Command within Domestic Security and Response Operations The land domain is where people live, where decision makers reside and where human, physical and technical access to all other domains begins. It is where military action intersects with populations and audiences. It encompasses decisive terrain and hosts critical infrastructure. [1] Domestic operations have unique characteristics and considerations. [2] Introduction Associate Professor David Stahel’s ‘ Auftragstaktik : The …
Titles to Note Listed below is a selection from the review copies that have arrived at the Australian Army Journal . Reviews for many of these books can be found online using the search function and filtering for the Journal Article Content Type, and Book Review Publication Type. Alternately you can browse through the range of online Australian Army Journal editions. Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea , 1950-1953, Gilberto N Villahermosa Brent, Scribe Publications, ISBN 9780160833243, 329 pp. …
Listed below is a selection from the review copies that have arrived at the Australian Army Journal . Reviews for many of these books can be found online using the search function and filtering for the Journal Article Content Type, and Book Review Publication Type. Alternately you can browse through the range of online Australian Army Journal editions. North Korea on the Brink, Glyn Ford with Soyoung Kwon, Pluto Press, ISBN 9780745325989, 249 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan) Reporting …
Listed below is a selection from the review copies that have arrived at the Australian Army Journal. Reviews for many of these books can be found online using the search function and filtering for the Journal Article Content Type, and Book Review Publication Type. Alternately you can browse through the range of online Australian Army Journal editions. • North Korea on the Brink , Glyn Ford with Soyoung Kwon, Pluto Press, ISBN 9780745325989, 249 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan) • …
Listed below is a selection from the review copies that have arrived at the Australian Army Journal . Reviews for many of these books can be found online using the search function and filtering for the Journal Article Content Type, and Book Review Publication Type. Alternately you can browse through the range of online Australian Army Journal editions. Military Ethics , C A J Coady and Igor Primoratz, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754624875, 546 pp. More than an Ally? Contemporary Australia–US Relations , …
This Australian Army Journal (AAJ) article started life as a themed collection of papers concerned with the topic of littoral manoeuvre. This is a priority research area for The Australian Army Research Centre after the release of the Defence Strategic Review (DSR). It is for this reason that two papers in this edition are written by AAJ Board members (Peter Dean and Rhys Crawley). This change from an edited collection of papers to an AAJ represents a return to the AAJ as a biannual publication in the …