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Brigadier David Saul graduated to the Royal Australian Corps of Transport in 1984. He has commanded 26 Tpt Sqn, 3 CSSB and has served on operations in Namibia and Iraq. In 2003-05 he served as the Director of Operations at HQ JLC where he was responsible for the Joint Contracting Coordination Cell. He attended the Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Australian Defence College in 2006 and took up his current appointment as Commander 17 CSS Bde in August 2006. … David …
Chaplain David Grulke enlisted into the Australian Army Reserves in 1980, where he served an infantryman before discharging as a corporal in 1989. Ordained into the Lutheran Church of Australia in 1990, he returned to the Army as a Chaplain in 1999. He has served as a Chaplain at ARTC, 3 RAR, LWC (NSW) and ALTC. He is working towards the completion of a Doctoral degree in practical theology and social theory with the Australian Catholic University. … David …
Chaplain Mark Hinton first enlisted into the Australian Regular Army in 1979 and graduated from OCS, Portsea, into the RACT where he served as a Transport Officer in a variety of postings before transfer to the Army Reserve in 1983. Chaplain Hinton was ordained into the Uniting Church of Australia in 1987, and subsequently served as an Army Reserve Chaplain while ministering in a variety of parishes before transferring to the Australian Regular Army in 2000. He has served as a Chaplain in a number of …
Major Scott Davison graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in June 1992 and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. His regimental appointments have been with 1st Armoured Regiment. He served as the Assistant Defence Attache in Indonesia during the period 2003-2004, the Corporate Services Infrastructure Group Liaison Officer to Operation ACOLYTE and the J3/5 DFACA at Joint Operations Support Staff, Southern Victoria. … Scott …
Major Elizabeth L. Robbins is deployed as the public affairs officer to the Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman and Chief, Strategic Effects. She holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the U.S. Military Academy and a master’s of public policy from Duke University. She has served in a variety of command and staff assignments and been an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, where she taught American politics, civil-military relations, and mass media and American politics. …
Soldiers Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point Written by: Elizabeth D Samet, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2007, ISBN: 9780312427825, 259pp. Reviewed by: Natalia Forrest O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts; Possess them not with fear; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them. - Henry V, William Shakespeare The debate about education versus training in military establishments is a familiar one. The Australian …
3 Para Written by: Patrick Bishop, HarperCollins, London, 2007, ISBN: 9780007257805, 289 pp. Reviewed by: James Cameron 3 Para is an absorbing account of the British 3rd Parachute Battalions six month deployment in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province in 2006. This book should be essential reading for Australian Army personnel who are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan, or for those who have served there and wish to compare their experiences with those of the British forces. The narrative is sourced almost …
Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of US Cavalry Written by: George F Hofmann, University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 2006, ISBN: 9780813124032, 578 pp. Reviewed by: Jean Bou The mechanisation of ground forces was one of the most important developments in twentieth century military affairs. George F Hofmann, a former Armored Branch officer in the US Army and now a Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, has sought to explain how the US Cavalry underwent mechanisation, a …
Swords and Ploughshares — Bringing Peace to the 21 st Century Written by: Paddy Ashdown, Weidenfield and Nicholson, London, 2007, ISBN: 9780297853039, 338 pp. Reviewed by: Colonel Marcus Fielding As a former British Royal Marine, diplomat and politician Paddy Ashdown has a broad range of experiences to call upon in his latest role, that of international statesman. It is his period as the European Unions Special Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, from 2002 to 2006, that he draws upon to write Swords …
