Contributors

Desmond Ball is Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), The Australian National University. He was Head of SDSC from 1984–1991, was awarded a personal chair in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies in 1987; was a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) from 1995–2001; and was co-chairman of the Steering Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific from 2000–2002. He was made a Fellow the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1986, and an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2014. He is the author of over 100 books, articles and chapters on defence and security.

Mats Berdal is Professor of Security and Development in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Between 2000 and 2003 he was the Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He received his PhD from Oxford University, which he completed under Robert O’Neill’s supervision in 1992.

Paul Dibb is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies and Chairman of SDSC. He was Head of SDSC from 1991–2003. His previous positions include Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defence, Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation, and Head of the National Assessments Staff (National Intelligence Committee). As Deputy Secretary, he chaired the Force Structure Committee with the Vice Chief of the Defence Force as his deputy, and the service chiefs as the other senior committee members. He is the author of five books and four reports to government, as well as more than 150 academic articles and monographs about the security of the Asia-Pacific region, the US alliance, and Australia’s defence policy. He wrote the 1986 Review of Australia’s Defence Capabilities (the Dibb Report) and was the primary author of the 1987 Defence White Paper. His book The Soviet Union: the Incomplete Superpower was published by IISS London in 1986, reprinted in 1987, with a second edition in 1988. On behalf of the Department of Foreign and Affairs and Trade, he has represented Australia at 10 meetings of the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Expert and Eminent Persons group, most recently in Singapore in March 2016. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989.

Peter Edwards, currently an Adjunct Professor at SDSC, was the Official Historian of Australia’s involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts 1948–1975 (the Malayan Emergency, the Indonesian Confrontation, and the Vietnam War). He was general editor of the nine-volume series and author of the volumes dealing with strategy and diplomacy, Crises and Commitments (1992), and A Nation at War (1997). He is also the author of Australia and the Vietnam War (2014), a single-volume distillation of the nine-volume series, and of Robert Marsden Hope and Australian Public Policy (2011), Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins (2006), Permanent Friends?: Historical Reflections on the Australian-American Alliance (2005), and Prime Ministers and Diplomats: The Making of Australian Foreign Policy 1901–49 (1983); co-author of A School with a View (2010); co-editor of Facing North (vol. 2, 2003); and editor of Australia Through American Eyes (1977). He played a major role in establishing the series of Documents on Australian Foreign Policy. A Rhodes Scholar, Dr Edwards is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), a Fellow of the Australian Institute for International Affairs, a former Trustee of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance, and the winner of several literary awards.

Ashley Ekins is head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. A graduate of the University of Adelaide, he specialises in the history of the First World War and the Vietnam War. He wrote two volumes on Australian ground operations in Vietnam for the ‘Official History of Australian Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975’: On the Offensive: The Australian Army in the Vietnam War, 1967–1968, co-authored with Ian McNeill (2003); and Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1968–1975 (2012). His publications also include 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (edited, shortlisted for the Templer Medal, 2010); War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict (edited with Elizabeth Stewart, 2011); and Gallipoli: A Ridge too far (edited, 2013, second revised edition, 2015).

Lawrence Freedman was Professor of War Studies at King’s College London from 1982–2014, and was Vice Principal from 2003 to 2013. He was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School and the universities of Manchester, York, and Oxford. Before joining King’s he held research appointments at Nuffield College Oxford, IISS, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In 1996, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997, and in June 2009 he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War. Lawrence Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most recent book, Strategy: A History (2013), was awarded the W. J. McKenzie Book Prize by the Political Studies Association.

Allan Gyngell is Adjunct Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU and a Visiting Fellow at the National Security College. From 2009–2013 he was Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, and from 2003–2009 was the inaugural Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He earlier worked as a senior officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Office of National Assessments, and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He was Senior Adviser (International) to Prime Minister Paul Keating. He has written extensively on Australian foreign policy, Asian regional relations, and the development of global and regional institutions. He is co-author with Michael Wesley of Making Australian Foreign Policy. He was appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2009 and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

Marianne Hanson is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland. She was fortunate to complete her studies under the guidance of Robert O’Neill at Oxford University. Marianne’s main area of focus is international security, especially nuclear arms control, international humanitarian law, and the role of international organisations. She has published widely in these fields.

Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair in International Relations at the University of Reading. She has degrees from the Universities of London (BA, MA) and Oxford (PhD), and a Habilitation from the University of Marburg. She has taught at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, at four French universities/higher education institutions, at two German universities, and has briefly worked at NATO headquarters. Her publications include The Evolution of Strategy (2010), Reading Clausewitz (2002), and many works on nuclear strategy, NATO, and transatlantic relations.

John Hillen is a former US Assistant Secretary of State and former chief executive officer of a number of US technology services companies, both public and privately held. A decorated combat veteran, he is the author of several books and numerous articles on international security affairs. He served as both a trustee and a member of the Council of IISS for a number of years, and did his PhD under Robert O’Neill’s supervision at the University of Oxford in the mid-1990s.

David Horner is Emeritus Professor of Australian Defence History at SDSC, where he has worked since 1990. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1969, he saw active service in Vietnam and served for 25 years in the Australian Regular Army. Later, as a colonel in the Army Reserve, he was the first Head of the Australian Army’s Land Warfare Studies Centre. He is the author/editor of some 32 books and numerous articles on military history, strategy, and defence. In 2004, he was appointed Official Historian of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations and is the general editor of this six-volume series. In 2009 he was appointed Official Historian for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and general editor of this three-volume series. The first volume of the ASIO series, The Spy Catchers, won the 2015 UK Intelligence Book of the Year prize and was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for history in 2015.

Sir Michael Eliot Howard OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA (born 29 November 1922) is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University and founder of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Catherine McArdle Kelleher is Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, and Professor (Emerita) of Strategy at the US Naval War College. In addition to high-level government service under the Carter and Clinton administrations, Kelleher has held fellowships at the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Center for Naval Analysis in Washington, the Institute of Strategic Studies in London, All Souls College at Oxford, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received individual research grants from NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations, the MacArthur foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Ford Foundation. She is graduate of Mount Holyoke College, and MIT, and the recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Public Service of the Department of Defense, the Director’s Medal from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Cross of Honor in Gold of the Federal Armed Forces of Germany, and the Manfred Woerner Medal by the German Ministry of Defense. She was honoured by the German President with the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 2014. She is the author of more than 70 books, monographs, and articles

Carter Malkasian is the special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford. He has extensive experience working in conflict zones and has published several books. The highlight of his work in conflict zones was nearly two years in Garmser district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, as a State Department Political Officer. Before that, Dr Malkasian deployed as a civilian advisor with the Marines twice to Iraq, for a total of 18 months, in Al Anbar in 2004 and 2006. Other field assignments have been to Honduras, Kuwait (OIF-1), Kunar (2007–2008), and Kabul as Political Advisor to General Dunford (2013–2014), the Commander of all US and Allied forces in Afghanistan. From May 2012 to May 2013, Dr Malkasian directed the office of overseas operations within the US State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. From October 2006 to July 2009, he directed the Stability and Development Program at the Center for Naval Analyses, the think tank for the US Navy and Marine Corps. His most recent book is War Comes to Garmser (2013), which won the silver medal for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award for 2014. Other publications include A History of Modern Wars of Attrition (2002), The Korean War, 1950–1953 (2001), and ‘War Downsized: How to Accomplish More with Less’ in Foreign Affairs. Dr Malkasian completed his doctorate in history at Oxford University. He speaks Pashto.

Octavian Manea, a contributor to Small Wars Journal, was a Fulbright Junior Scholar at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University where he completed an MA in International Relations with a focus on security studies.

Daniel Marston is Professor of Military Studies at The Australian National University, and Principal of the Military and Defence Studies Program at the Australian Command and Staff College in Canberra. He has been a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. He has been working with the USA, United States Marine Corps, British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2006. He completed his doctorate in the history of war at Balliol College, Oxford University, under the supervision of Professor Robert O’Neill.

John Nagl is the ninth Headmaster of the Haverford School in Philadelphia. A veteran of both Iraq Wars, he earned his MA and PhD at Oxford under the supervision of Professor O’Neill.

Gaines Post is Professor Emeritus of History, Claremont McKenna College. A graduate of Cornell University, he served as a lieutenant in the US Army in Germany, and attended Oxford University before obtaining his PhD in modern European history at Stanford University. He taught at the University of Texas (Austin), then became Dean of Faculty at Claremont McKenna College. A specialist on modern Germany and the origins of the Second World War, his major scholarly publications are The Civil-Military Fabric of Weimar Foreign Policy (1973), and Dilemmas of Appeasement: British Deterrence and Defense, 1934–1937 (1993).

Michael Wesley is Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. His career has spanned academia, with previous appointments at the University of New South Wales, Griffith University, the University of Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sen University, and the University of Sydney; government, where he worked as Assistant Director General for Transnational Issues at the Office of National Assessments; and think tanks, as Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Professor Wesley has also served as the editor-in-chief of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He is a Non-Executive Member of the Senior Leadership Group of the Australian Federal Police and a Member of the NSW/ACT Advisory Board for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. His book, There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia (2011), won the 2011 John Button Prize for the best writing on Australian public policy. His most recent book is Restless Continent: Wealth, Power and Asia’s New Geopolitics (2015).

Hugh White has been Professor of Strategic Studies at SDSC since 2004. Before that he was a senior official of the Australian Government, and the first director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. His recent publications include Power Shift: Australia’s Future Between Washington and Beijing (2010), and The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (2012).

Tony White was born in Australia but grew up in Kenya. He studied medicine at Cambridge and Sydney universities then took up a short service commission in the Australian Army. He served in Vietnam alongside Robert O’Neill for 12 months (1966–1967) as the Regimental Medical Officer in the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and was awarded a mention-in-despatches. Returning to civilian life, he specialised as a dermatologist, practising in Sydney. He did an annual stint in the outback with the Royal Flying Doctor Service and was involved in dermatology clinics and workshops in the Pacific Islands and Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In 2009, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for contributions to remote area dermatological practice and education. Following his retirement in 2010, he completed a Master of Medical Humanities degree at Sydney University.