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Major Raymond Lindsay is a serving Australian Army officer. He has completed numerous deployments to Afghanistan and in 2015 he was awarded the Chief of Army Scholarship to research weapons of mass effect. He is currently a student at Australian Command and Staff College. … Raymond …

Charles Miller received his PhD in political science from Duke University in 2013 and is currently a lecturer in Strategic and Defence Studies at the Australian National University. His work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Peace Research , the International Journal of Public Opinion Research and the Australian Journal of International Affairs .   … Charles …

Cindy Kua completed a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce at the Australian National University. After graduating in 2006, she practised as a lawyer in both the private and public sectors. In 2012, she was appointed to the Australian Army Legal Corps as a permanent legal officer. Since her appointment, Cindy has been posted to Headquarters 6th Brigade, the Directorate of Military Administrative Law, Headquarters 1st Brigade and Headquarters 2nd Division. She is currently completing a Masters in …

Dr Matthew Beard is a military ethicist and philosopher. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, and writes publicly on matters of moral philosophy and ethics. Matthew was awarded his PhD from the University of Notre Dame Australia for a thesis entitled ‘War Rights and Military Virtues: A Philosophical Reappraisal of Just War Theory,’ and was the inaugural recipient of the Morris Research Scholarship from Notre Dame. He has discussed subjects including …

Professor Sandra Lynch is Director of the Institute for Ethics and Society and Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia (Sydney campus). Dr. Lynch is a moral philosopher, with expertise in applied and professional ethics, ethics and values education, the constitution of the self, friendship, critical thinking, and the intersection of philosophy and literature. Her most recent work has been focussed on responding to the need to deepen students’ active engagement in ethical discourse and …

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Churchill’s Mavericks: Plotting Hitler’s Defeat     Written by: Giles Milton John Murray Publishing, 2016,  ISBN 9781444798951, 356pp, Reviewed by: Lieutenant Colonel Matt Patching The use of sabotage in war is often something westerners associate with the enemy: dirty tricks that are outside the rules of ‘gentlemanly’ warfare. That was certainly the view of the British polity in the late 1930s. Despite this view, a small and carefully selected group of men and women …

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 …

Margins of Victory   Written by: Douglas Macgregor Macgregor, D (2016) Margin of Victory , Annapolis: Naval Institute Press ISBN: 9781682476901, Reviewed by: Major Mick Cook, Army Headquarters A battle can determine the outcome of a war. The outcome of a battle can be determined by decisions made decades earlier. The reform program that Sir Richard Haldane began to impose on the British Army in 1905 enabled it to hold the line at the Battle of Mons in 1914. General Kazushige Ugaki was able to implement a …

The Battle of Long Tan: Australia’s four hours of hell in Vietnam   Written by: David W. Cameron Penguin Random House Australia, 2017, 392pp, Reviewed by: Major Lindsay Amner Military history is generally written by the winners. If the losers write their version of history, they will generally add a bit of glory to their actions so they appear glorious losers rather than just losers. But whichever side writes the history, it is generally told from only one side, from the cultural perspective of the writer. …

The Australian Imperial Force   Written by: Jean Bou & Peter Dennis Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-0195576801, 320 pp, Reviewed by: William Westerman This is the final volume of a five-book history of Australia in the Great War published by Oxford University Press during the war’s centenary years. Previous volumes have explored the war against the Germans, the war against the Ottomans, the war in the air and the home front. This book completes the picture, doing away with battle …