CONTRIBUTORS
D R D ALE B LAIR is a freelance historian currently teaching at Deakin University, Burwood campus. His areas of academic interest include Australiaâs involvement in World War I at home and abroad. His most recent publication is a battle narrative and analysis, The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel: Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line, 1918 (2011). Other publications include his study of the 1st Battalion, AIF, Dinkum Diggers (2001), and his study of illegitimate killing in World War I entitled No Quarter (2005).
D R C HRIS C LARK is head of the Office of Air Force History for the Royal Australian Air Force and a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. Although his interest since 2004 has been primarily on the history of air power, he has written extensively on broader aspects of Australian defence over many years. His Encyclopaedia of Australiaâs Battles (3rd edition 2010) continues to be a standard reference.
D R J OHN C ONNOR lectured in history at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kingâs College, London, before taking up his current position as a senior lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. His first book, The Australian Frontier Wars 1788â1838 (2002), was shortlisted for the Royal United Services Instituteâs WestminsterMedal for Military Literature. His most recent book, Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence (2011), is a biography of the Australian defence minister during World War I.
A LASTAIR C OOPER is a public servant and Navy Reserve officer with an abiding interest in Australian naval and military history. He was a contributing author to The Royal Australian Navy , the centenary history of the RAN, and is currently an interviewer for the RAN Oral History Collection.
D R B OB H ALL is a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. He is a Vietnam veteran and author of Combat Battalion: The Eighth Battalion in Vietnam (2000). Together with Dr Andrew Ross he is working on an Australian Research Council funded study of the combat performance of the 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam.
D R E LEANOR H ANCOCK is an associate professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. She has published on the history of the German war effort in World War II and on issues relating to women in the armed forces. She is the author of The National Socialist Leadership and Total War 1941â1945 (1991); and Ernst Röhm: Hitlerâs SA Chief of Staff (2008).
D R K ARL J AMES has been a historian at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, since 2006, where he has specialised in Australiaâs involvement in World War II. In 2011, he curated the memorialâs special seventieth anniversary exhibition: âThe Rats of Tobruk, 1941â. Karl completed his doctoral thesis on the Bougainville campaign of 1944â1945, at the University of Wollongong.
D R M ICHAEL M CKINLEY is senior lecturer in International Relations and Strategy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. He has recently published Economic Globalisation as Religious War: Tragic Convergence (2007). His current major research projects comprise an analysis of the grand strategic decline of the United States by way of an historical comparison with the pre-Reformation Church, the problems of the neo-liberal university in teaching the subject of terrorism and counter-terrorism, and a comprehensive critique of the AustraliaâUS alliance based on previously excluded historical evidence.
D R A LBERT P ALAZZO is a senior research fellow at the Australian Armyâs Directorate of Research and Analysis in Canberra. He has written widely on warfare in the modern age and on the Australian Army in particular. His many publications
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