“We laughed, knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.” – Wilfred Owen, The Next War Australia and New …
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When I’m lecturing on strategic policy or Australian force structure issues, I often make a comment about the ‘defence of Australia’ (DOA) doctrine along those lines of ‘of course, the defence of Australia has been …
This week’s graphs illustrate the importance of data in settling some historical debates. I was fortunate recently to have a chat with US military historian Williamson Murray. We got talking about some of his early …