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Dr Hugh Smith lectured in politics and military affairs at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and then at the Australian Defence Force Academy until his retirement in 2004. He is the author of numerous articles on armed forces and society and a book on the military and political ideas of Clausewitz. His most recent publication (with Nick Jans) on Australia’s reserve forces appears in Armed Forces & Society. … Hugh …
Calling Out the Troops: The Australian military and civil unrest: the legal and constitutional issues Written by: Michael Head, Federation Press, Sydney, 2009, ISBN: 9781862877092, 254pp Abstract This review essay examines the arguments of a new book on the use of the ADF to deal with civil unrest within Australia. Several arguments are set out which point to a growing capacity and inclination on the part of governments to use the ADF for such purposes. Various factors that constrain such use are …
POWs of World War II in the Pacific Written by: Gavan Daws, Scribe, Melbourne, 2008. ISBN: 978086519782, 462pp Reviewed by: John McCarthy This book was first published in the United States to highly favourable reviews in 1994. Ten years later it was published in Australia. In 2008 it was reprinted. The New York Times Book Review considered it ‘may be the rawest, harshest book about the war’. The international edition of The Japan Times Weekly found it ‘sears the reader’s memory with unforgettable …
Abstract Is Australia prepared to support the possibility of a negotiated solution to the current Afghan situation? A negotiated solution must be from a position of strength, and not as a last resort or from a position of fear. With the Soviet–Afghan war as a backdrop, the insurgencies in Oman and Aden provide the basis for debate on the merits of negotiation as a means to resolve insurgencies. Many of the Afghan population support dialogue with the Taliban. This underscores President Karzais desire to …
Lieutenant Colonel Jon Hawkins, DSM and Bar , is a Royal Australian Infantry officer and has served in a variety of regimental and staff appointments in Special Operations Command, Army and Australian Defence Headquarters. He holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering; a Master of Defence Studies, which he completed at Canadian Staff College; and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Business. He is currently the Deputy Director for Army Headquarters in the Joint …
Major Ray Hingst is a Reserve officer posted to the CIMIC Branch of the Headquarters 1st Division. He enlisted in 1988 as a private soldier in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, serving with the 1st General Hospital. He graduated from Officer Cadet Training Unit and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Corps of Transport where he qualified as a Movements Officer. He commanded the Joint Movement Control Office – Brisbane, and has also served with 31st Royal Queensland Regiment and 7th Signal …
Abstract As the Australian Defence Force (ADF) embarks on an ambitious re-equipment program involving the procurement of multi-billion dollar platforms, enhancement of the logistics required to support this technology will also require careful consideration. Autonomic Logistics is a system that offers the ADF the opportunity to link the current Military Integrated Logistics Information System (MILIS) to real-time platform information through the employment of the Sense and Respond Logistics system. This is …