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To the Editors It’s a pity that Brigadier John Essex-Clark did not read Paul Hams Vietnam — The Australian War with a more critical eye (Australian Army Journal, Summer 2007). The book holds too many errors that range from the silly to the serious for it to be classified as a ‘history students textbook’. There is no doubt that Paul Ham can write well and what he has written is easy to read. One expects, however, that the narrative and its references be reliable. This is where Vietnam fails the test. The …
Captain Hutchison graduated from the Royal Military College in December 1960 and was allotted to infantry. He served with 2 RAR until January 1965 as a platoon commander in Malaya and later as OC Demonstration Platoon Jungle Training Centre Canungra and 21C Support Company. Between January 1965 and February 1967 he was GSO3 (Trg) TF HQ, HQ 1 Div and later GS03 (Ops) HQ 1 ATF in South Vietnam. The term ‘Red Rats’ was affectionately bestowed on the 1st Australian Task Force in Phuoc Tuy Province by the South …
Elizabeth Barber’s academic career spans the past twenty years, including teaching at the University of Queensland, Australian National University, University of Canberra and University of New South Wales. For the past ten years she has been involved in military logistics, including researching logistics and supply chain initiatives for the Australian Defence Force. She is the Editor of Asset Visibility in Military Logistics (Australian Defence Studies Centre, 2002) and has written on the Logistics of the …
Loro Horta is a research associate fellow and PhD candidate at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also a graduate of the National Defence University of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLANDU), China, and has attended various courses at US military schools. Mr Horta is a regular contributor to some of Asia’s major newspapers such as The Straits Times, The Jakarta Post, Asia Times and other outlets in Australia and the Lusophone world. … …
William Thomas Allison is Professor of History at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where he has taught American diplomatic and military history since 1999. A native of Texas, he earned his PhD in American foreign relations at Bowling Green State University in 1995. During the 2002-03 academic year, he was Visiting Professor in the Department Strategy and National Security at the United States Air Force Air War College. He is author of several publications, including Military Justice in Vietnam: The …