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Jordan served eight years in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment which included operational service as a member of the United Nations Mission to Rwanda in 1995. He currently works for AKE Ltd., a company owned and operated by ex-Special Forces soldiers from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. In his role as Operations Manager for AKE Asia-Pacific, Mr Jordan works closely with the media, non-government organisations and large corporations. He has recently returned from operations in …
Jim Truscott, OAM, is an ex-SAS major currently operating as a corporate crisis practitioner. His 26-year Army career included service with a variety of headquarters, special operations and regional force units. He participated in a number of international expeditions to Borneo to trace the exploits of the World War II Special Reconnaissance Department and was a member of the Bicentennial Everest expedition in 1988 for which he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. … Jim …
Dr Erik B. Villard, a graduate of Occidental College and the University of Washington, is currently a historian for the US Army Center of Military History in Washington DC. He is in the midst of writing the official US Army history of the Vietnam War in the Tết Offensive period, October 1967 - October 1968. … Erik B. …
rakash Mirchandani has worked as an international journalist and media consultant for three decades. He was a BBC correspondent (radio and television) in India and in London for twelve years, before moving to Australia. He was the first Defence correspondent in Australian television and the first accredited correspondent for the ADF. Mr Mirchandani was a founding member of the Defence Media Advisory Group. In 1995 The was awarded the Australian Institute of Management’s award for Excellence in Management …
Colonel Andrew Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Royal Military College, Duntroon and also holds a Graduate Diploma in Defence Studies from Deakin University and a master’s degree from the University of New South Wales. He is currently a PhD. candidate in the Department of Politics, University of New South Wales. He served with the United Nations Mine Clearance Training Team, Pakistan, and was instrumental in the formation of the Australian Defence Force Joint Incident Response Unit, which …
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins, British Army. Biography to be provided. … Tim Collins …
By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic Champions Written by: Richard Cohen, The Modern Library, New York, 2002, ISBN: 9780812969665, 519pp. Review Essay by: Michael Evans It is well known that sword fighting is an excellent training ground for developing the reflexes of military professionals. In 1954, the International Council for Military Sports placed fencing at the top of recommended sports for military elites, particularly modern air-combat pilots. …
To The Editors, I have just commenced reading the new Australian Army Journal . I note that the Introduction states that the AAJ is to be ‘a professional Journal in which officers can record their ideas, views and experiences’. The Introduction goes on to state that ‘the AAJ welcomes articles, review essays and letters from all serving officers’. Are these phrases meant to suggest that the Army’s enlisted soldiers will never have anything to offer the revived journal? Warrant Officer M. Levine Regimental …
Future Wars: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy Written by: Dennis E. Showalter (ed.), Imprint Publications, Chicago, 2002, ISBN: 9781879176393, 184pp. Reviewed by: Major Russell Parkin, Australian Defence College, Weston Creek Previous volumes of the United States Air Force Academy’s Military History Symposium Series have produced some excellent studies. Volume 7 in the series contains a collection of essays on the subject of coalition warfare that very successfully fulfil Sir Michael Howard’s …
