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Dr Mark O’Neill is a defence and national security professional with experience in the military, policy, non-government, academia and think tank sectors. He has had operational deployments in Somalia, Mozambique, Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006 Mark was the first Chief of Army Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales. … Mark …

Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75   Written by: Tristan Moss Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781108182638, 284pp Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill Dr Tristan Moss is currently a researcher on the Official Histories of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor at the Australian War Memorial and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is also a previous winner of the C. E. W. Bean Prize for Military …

War, Strategy and History. Essays in honour of Professor Robert O’Neill   Edited by: Daniel Marston and Tamara Leahy,  ANU Press, 2016,  ISBN: 9781760460235, 312 pp, Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill War, Strategy and History is an apt title for this Festschrift honouring the influential career of soldier, strategist and historian, Professor Robert (‘Bob’) O’Neill. From Intelligence Officer of the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5 RAR) in South Vietnam in 1966–67; to involvement with …

Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare   Written by: Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian (eds), Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2008, ISBN: 9781849081641, 304 pp. Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian have much more in common than editorship of this topical anthology. They completed their doctoral studies at Oxford under the supervision of Professor Robert O’Neill (known to many readers of this journal, not only as a former Australian Army officer but also as a …

Dr Zena Assaad is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. She has held fellowships with the Australian Army Research Centre and Trusted Autonomous Systems. Her research explores the safety of human-machine teaming and the regulation and assurance of autonomous and AI systems. Dr Assaad is a member of the expert advisory group for the global commission on responsible AI in the military domain. … Zena …

Dr Thomas J Rogers is a historian at the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre. He has previously worked as a historian at the Australian National University, the Australian War Memorial and the University of Melbourne. … Thomas Rogers …

Megan Hamilton is a PhD candidate in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London. She holds history degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, those being largely focused on the Canadian experience of the world wars. Her current research is an Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project at King’s College London and the Imperial War Museum that studies World War II army training across the British Empire. … Megan …

Professor Brian P Farrell is a Professor of Military History at the National University of Singapore, where he has been teaching and writing since 1993. His main research interests are the military history of the defence of the British Empire, the Western military experience in Asia, and coalition warfare. He has published extensively in these fields. His most recognised work is The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940–1942 (2005), his most recent publication is From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers …

Alexey D Muraviev is Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is the founder and director of the Strategic Flashlight forum on national security and strategy at Curtin. Alexey has published widely in the field of national security, strategic and defence studies. He is Australia’s leading authority on Russian military power. His broader research interests include problems of modern maritime power; contemporary defence and strategic …

Dr Jamie Vovrosh is the quantum sensing and PNT lead at QinetiQ. He is an active member of the UK’s quantum community and is a member of the UK’s Quantum Technology Hub for Sensing and Timing. During his career he has amassed a wealth of knowledge in the design, building, optimisation, testing and evaluation of quantum and non-quantum sensors. Prior to joining QinetiQ, during his time at the University of Birmingham he led the development of the portable quantum technology-based gravity gradiometers as …