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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 Harry Busby commissioned into The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, a light infantry regiment, in 2016. He carried out the roles of Platoon Commander, Company 2IC, Recce Platoon Commander and Adjutant in the 1st Battalion. He deployed to the Kurdish Region of Iraq with the battalion in 2019, providing training to Kurdish forces. He later moved to the 7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team HQ, leading on ensuring its readiness as part of NATO’s Allied Reaction Force. During his time at the Joint Command …
Dr Andrew Maher is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He has been a postgraduate lecturer on irregular warfare and special operations for over five years and has specialised on the analysis of proxy warfare. His forthcoming book Riding Tigers: The Strategic Logic of Proxy Warfare (2025) examines the use of warfare as a component of strategic competition. Dr Maher has also taught with Arizona State University, Joint Special Operations University and NATO Special Operations …
Dr Charles Miller is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the Australian National University. He received his PhD in political science from Duke University in 2013. He has published on a number of security topics, including combat motivation in World Politics and a dataset of historical conflict events (the Historical Conflict Event Dataset, or HCED) in the Journal of Conflict Resolution . … Charles …
Dr Mark O’Neill is a defence and national security professional with experience in the military, policy, non-government, academia and think tank sectors. He has had operational deployments in Somalia, Mozambique, Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006 Mark was the first Chief of Army Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales. … Mark …
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 …
Dr Zena Assaad is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. She has held fellowships with the Australian Army Research Centre and Trusted Autonomous Systems. Her research explores the safety of human-machine teaming and the regulation and assurance of autonomous and AI systems. Dr Assaad is a member of the expert advisory group for the global commission on responsible AI in the military domain. … Zena …
Dr Thomas J Rogers is a historian at the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre. He has previously worked as a historian at the Australian National University, the Australian War Memorial and the University of Melbourne. … Thomas Rogers …