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Ian van der Waag , MA (Pretoria), PhD (Cape Town), is associate professor of military history and head of the Department of Military History, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. … Ian van der Waag …
The flight comes into view. Nine machines, enough to lift the whole company. Purple smoke marks the landing zone as the helicopters wheel over the jungle perimeter and ease themselves fussily onto the ground. The soldiers emerge from the nearby trees and clamber aboard, section by section, awkward with their heavy packs and weapons. Together with others of the company headquarters group, the captain is assigned to the lead helicopter. The flight is airborne again within five minutes. Aloft, the deafening …
Nick Jans is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Defence Leadership & Ethics at the Australian Defence College. His 2003 study, ‘Once Were Warriors’, deals with senior leadership culture in the Australian Defence Organisation. (This was the source of the quote from ex-CDF Chris Barrie.) He is currently working on a study that examines the leadership issues and processes at the highest levels of the ADF. … Nick …
Lieutenant Daniel R Green was a mobilised US Navy Reservist working as the ISAF Joint Command liaison office to the US Embassy’s Office of Interagency Provincial Affairs in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2009–10. He previously served as the US Department of State representative to the Tarin Kot Provincial Reconstruction Team in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan in 2005–06 and as a Tribal and Leadership Engagement Officer with the US Navy in Fallujah, Iraq in 2007. The views expressed in the article are the author’s …