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The Complete Story of the French Participation in the Dardanelles Expedition of 1915 by George H Cassar Helion , Warwick, 2019, 238 pp Hardback ISBN: 9781911628927 Reviewed by: Chris Roberts Over a century after the last British troops were withdrawn from Gallipoli, volumes are still being written about a campaign that has been likened to a Greek tragedy. Within the historiography of the English-speaking peoples, the focus inevitably has been almost entirely on the British and Anzac contribution. Yet …
by John D Hosler Hackett Publishing Company , 2022, 185 pp Paperback ISBN: 97813942033201 Reviewed by: John Nash Military historians and theorists are often confronted by frustrating historical myths. Sometimes these are quite specific (e.g. a battle, historical figure, or piece of equipment), whereas sometimes they are historical constructs or historical arguments that have gained a life of their own and that come to bedevil the wider scholarship of war and military studies. The collection of chapters …
The Defence Strategic Review (DSR) was a call for action, which bluntly stated that we have seen ‘the return of major power strategic competition, the intensity of which should be seen as the defining feature of our region and time’. [1] Yet the DSR offers little insight into the nature of the competition that is being advanced by regimes such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and others. Terms such as ‘grey zone’, ‘irregular warfare’ and ‘proxy warfare’ simply do not appear in the DSR, even though …
Dr Gregory MacCallion is a Senior Managing Consultant for OCRT. He has a career that spans Australian academia and public service in the Department of Defence. Gregory contributed to Defence’s first deterrence polices, the 2020 Force Structure Plan, and the 2022 ADF Theatre Operating Concept. In 2019 he published his book National versus Human Security: Australian and Canadian Military Interventions . Gregory has contributed to numerous book chapters and journal articles, and presented at international …
Dr Andrew Frain completed his PhD in social psychology at the Australian National University. His research interests centre on the social identity approach and science integrity, with particular interest in research translation. Andrew has worked in the Australian Department of Defence Directorate of People Intelligence and Research, and was the convenor of the Australian War College ACSC Leadership Theory module from 2016 to 2022. Andrew would typify one of Michael Billig’s ‘antiquarian psychologists’, …
Nick Jans’s career began conventionally enough, with the Royal Military College (Duntroon) followed by regimental service in Vietnam. But after that it was distinctively unconventional, as he rotated between internal consultancy, research and policy roles, all guided by the longstanding principle that ‘There is nothing as practical as a good theory’. After 25 years of regular service, he then spent nearly as long in the Reserves. In the meantime, after a few years at the University of Canberra, he moved to …
Land-Based Maritime Strike in the Red Sea Crisis At the base of the Gulf of Suez, a tiny non-state actor is demonstrating how area denial tactics can create a strategic dilemma for larger and more capable nations. Since October 2023, the Houthi movement has used a combination of unconventional naval and land-based maritime strike (LBMS) attacks to restrict passage through the Red Sea. Though individual attacks have been ineffective, the broader threat has been impactful, reducing shipping throughput by …
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Warrant Officer Class One Blair Tidey is a member of the Australian Intelligence Corps. He has served in a wide variety of intelligence postings at the tactical and strategic level, and has deployed to Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea. WO1 Tidey was posted to the Defence Section of the Australian Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam from 2015 to 2017. He has an academic interest in the Vietnam War, and is currently studying for a PhD at the Australian National University. WO1 Tidey has been involved in …