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Zombie Myths of Australian Military History – The Ten Myths That Will Not Die , Written by: Craig Stockings (ed), University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2010, ISBN 9781742230795. Reviewed by: Captain Dayton McCarthy This lively collection of essays aims to slay, or at the very least provide some context to, ten of the most resilient myths in Australian military history. The authors have a job on their hands as many of these myths form the staple subject matter for the bestselling books in …
The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare , Written by: George Kassimeris and John Buckley (eds), Ashgate, Farnham, 2010, ISBN 9780754674108, 468pp, Reviewed by: Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies, University of Birmingham, UK Recently I had the privilege of leading a party of British army officers on a battlefield study to France to examine the 1940 campaign. As we stood overlooking the places where Guderian’s XIX Panzer Corps crossed the Meuse and where the French armoured …
To Salamaua , Written by: Phillip Bradley, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2010, ISBN 9780521763905, 390pp Reviewed by: John Moremon, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University, NZ The late Cam Bennett, whose Rough Infantry is one of a few memoirs of the Salamaua campaign, commented that he ‘found it extremely hard to write about the war in New Guinea’. It was not just that the tropical, jungle-clad, mountainous island was so different from Libya, Greece and Syria. It was also …
Listed below are a select group of books recently or soon to be published that either contribute to the discussions initiated in the articles in the Australian Army Journal or on subjects that may be of interest in the near future. Some of these books may be reviewed in forthcoming editions of the Journal. Terrorism and Global Security: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives , Anne Aly, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2011, ISBN 9781420256406, 306 pp, RRP AU$59.95. In this book, Senior Lecturer in terrorism …
Written by: Peter Beale, Big Sky Publishing, Newport, 2011, ISBN 9781921941023, 320 pp, Reviewed by: Colonel Jason Thomas, Australian Army A young United States Marine Corps lieutenant serving in Vietnam was sitting in a battalion harbour reading the Small Wars Manual , the bible of the Corps. The battalion commander walked by and noticing this, commented, ‘Shouldn’t you read about something you don’t know?’ Both these men, Al Gray and Charles Krulak would go on to be distinguished and innovative …
Written by: Peter Willetts, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2011, ISBN 9780415381253, 224 pp, Reviewed by: Sue Thompson, Asia-Pacific Civil Military Centre of Excellence Peter Willetts has written an informative textbook on the role non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play in the realm of global policy-making. He examines a variety of these organisations, their structures and activities and the history of their participation in the post-Second World War international system, claiming that they have …
Written by: Alan H Smith, Big Sky Publishing, Newport, 2011, 9780987057440, 448 pp, Reviewed by: Major General Tim Ford (Retd) When launching the book Do Unto Others , Major General Paul Symon, Deputy Chief of Army and the senior Gunner serving in an Army appointment today, said that Alan Smith ‘not only discusses the history of Australian campaigns utilising the practice of counter battery fire—it also seeks to make the technical aspects of this complex science understandable’. Not an easy task, …
Written by: Cameron Forbes, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2011, ISBN 9781742610221, 544 pp, Reviewed by: Allan R Millet, University of New Orleans, National World War II Museum Cameron Forbes’s The Korean War is an ‘in-between’ account of Australia’s experience in the Korean War. Holding the strategic-operational high ground, Robert O’Neill’s Australia in the Korean War, 1950–1953 in two volumes remains definitive and rivals General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley’s similar official history of British …
Operation QUEENSLANDER: Ten Ideas for Australian Defence Force Support to Disaster Relief Operations
Abstract The purpose of this article is to articulate ten ideas for ADF support to disaster relief operations. These ideas originate from the development of the strategic, operational and tactical plans for Operation QUEENSLANDER in order to ensure that the ADF can continue to fulfil Defence White Paper 2009 requirements. These ideas are: intelligence preparation in disaster relief operations; the effectiveness of the Joint Military Appreciation Process; the utility of design in complex disasters; beyond …