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Brigadier General Philip Coker, US Army, is the Director of the Capabilities Development, Futures Center at the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy, West Point, and during his career as a cavalry officer he has filled a variety of command, staff and training appointments. His overseas service includes tours of duty in Germany and South Korea. … Philip …
Lieutenant Colonel John Simeoni is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon. His postings have included service with the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the Royal Australian Regiment; a Regional Forces Surveillance Squadron in north-western Australia; and an instructional appointment at the School of Infantry. He deployed to Somalia as a member of the Unified Task Force in January 1993 and to East Timor with the INTERFET coalition. Lieutenant Colonel Simeoni attended Australian Command and Staff College …
Wing Commander Chris Mills joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1964 and completed his officer training at the RAAF Academy. His career has included operational tours in transport and fighter aircraft. Wing Commander Mills planned and flew many air-to-sea operations in Mirage aircraft based in Butterworth and Singapore, before joining an operations research unit in the Defence Science and Technology Organisation. He assisted the Defence Capability Review in 2003 and transferred to the Air Force …
Barak Salmoni is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His primary focus has been on the Middle East, Islam, and civil–military relations in the Middle East. He is also the current Director, Tactical Culture for Marine Expeditionary Forces, and provides cultural and human terrain training to Marines deploying to Iraq, sponsored by Marine Corps Training and Education Command. He was embedded with the Iraqi Security Forces’ …
Kokoda Commander Written by: Stuart Braga, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN: 9780195516388, 374 pp. Reviewed by: John Donovan Since at least the 1930s, the friction between regular and citizen soldiers has remained an enduring element in the historiography of the Australian Army. This book sheds much light on that friction, while rehabilitating the reputation of Major General Arthur ‘Tubby’ Allen, one of Australia’s more notable citizen soldiers. It is a valuable addition to the work sponsored by the …
To Villers-Bretonneux with Brigadier-General William Glasgow, DSO and the 13th Australian Infantry Brigade Written by: Peter Edgar, Australian Military History Publications, NSW, 20061 ISBN: 9781876439460, 284pp. Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Miles Farmer, OAM (Retd) Readers interested in the study of the battles on the Western Front in World War I will be familiar with the battle of Villers-Bretonneux on 25 April 1918—said by many to have been the turning point of the war. Be that as it may, it …
Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China Written by: Paul Monk, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2005, ISBN: 9781920769376, 309 pp, notes, index. Reviewed by: Anthony Robinson Too often strategic analysts and the business community focus on the ‘inevitable’ rise of China as an economic superpower, casting away any sensible analysis of a very complex nation with a rich and varied history. Simply by extrapolating linear trends it is possible to come up with a number of outcomes, most of which bear …
Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia’s Asian Wars Written by: David Horner, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2005 ISBN: 9780195552829, 400 pp. Reviewed by: Colonel John Blaxland Professor David Horner is a prolific writer and pre-eminent historian on Australian defence matters, having written a plethora of works that have significantly contributed to the store of corporate knowledge on the Army and the wider Defence organisation. Much of what he has written concerns higher-level …
On Shaggy Ridge Written by: Phillip Bradley, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN: 9780195551006, 240 pp. Reviewed by: John Donovan It is possible to argue that this book need not have been written, for the events covered have been fully described in the official history. However, one must admit that World War II official histories do not adorn many bookcases these days, and it seems probable that the copies in libraries spend very little time in the hands of borrowers. This book, then, joins others in …
