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Captain Damien Green enlisted in the Army as a soldier in 1987 and was commissioned under the Army Warrant Officer Commissioning Scheme in January 2000. As an officer he has filled a variety of regimental and staff appointments in the Army Personnel Agency Townsville, 31st Battalion, The Royal Queensland Regiment and the Combat Training Centre. Captain Damien Green is currently serving in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and was Mortar Platoon Commander in this Battalion at the time this …
Lieutenant Owen Paulson enlisted in the Australian Army in 1992 and has served in 8/9 RAR, 3 RAR and 1 RAR. He graduated Royal Military College, Duntroon in December 2002. In 2003, Lieutenant Paulson served as a Platoon Commander in East Timor. Lieutenant Paulson is a Thai linguist and is currently posted to Headquarters 3 Brigade as the Liaison Officer to Commander 3 Brigade. … Owen …
Ben McDevitt is currently CEO of the CrimTrac Agency. Previously, Ben served as a member of the Australian Federal Police for 22 years, rising to the rank of Assistant Commissioner. In 1997 Ben fulfilled the role of Operations Superintendent with the United Nations civilian police in Cyprus and in 1998 he served as a police advisor to the multi-national Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group. Ben oversaw the Australian Federal Police involvement in the joint investigation into the Bali bombings in October …
Professor Jeremy Black MBE studied at Queens College Cambridge, St John’s College, Oxford, and Merton College, also at Oxford. He joined the University of Durham in the 1980s, gained his PhD and became a professor there in the early 1990s. He is currently at Exeter University where he has an established chair in history. Professor Black’s research focuses on early modern British and continental European history and he is a leading specialist on military revolution. He is the author of forty-six books, the …
Currently a Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, Professor Tow was Professor of International Relations at both the University of Queensland and at Griffith University. Professor Tow has worked at the University of Southern California, been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and a Visiting Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He is the author of several books, including Asia Pacific Strategic Relations: …
Major General Ian Gordon, AO, graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1973, undertaking a range of regimental and technical staff appointments, including the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham, UK. He served as Commandant of the Army Command and Staff College; as Director General Personnel – Army; as Deputy Commander, United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET); and as Commander, Training Command – Army. He assumed his current appointment as Deputy Chief of the …
Mick Slater joined the Australian Army in 1978 and completed his officer training at the Officer Cadet School, Portsea. He undertook a variety of infantry regimental and instructional postings, including 8/9 RAR, 1 RAR, 2/4 RAR, the Infantry School Singleton and at the Canadian Forces Combined Arms School. He has also served overseas on the United States 3rd Army Headquarters and is a graduate of the US Army War College. Brigadier Slater commanded 2 RAR in East Timor during the initial days of INTERFET, …
The Cambridge History of Warfare Edited by: Geoffrey Parker, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN: 9780521618953, 432pp. Reviewed by: Anthony Robinson, FDI Associate, Canberra With every major conflict, there is a temporary period when titles that focus on war and conflict move from the back of the bookstore to the front. Many of these works, while valuable by themselves, often look at one conflict and sometimes one battle without considering the evolution of warfare. Placing individual …
Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice Written by: Colin S. Gray, Routledge, London, 2006, ISBN: 9780415386357, 234pp. Reviewed By: Lieutenant Colonel Gav Reynolds, Senior Military Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre With twenty books and three hundred articles to his credit, Colin Gray’s name has become synonymous with the analysis of strategy. It must surely have been a daunting task to select eleven essays from his existing collection and use an unpublished twelfth to summarise his …
