Book contents
- Strategy and Command
- Other titles in the Australian Army History Series
- Acknowledgement of Country
- Strategy and Command
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, maps and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The influence of the Boer War on Australia’s First World War commanders
- Chapter 2 Preparing for war, 1901–14
- Chapter 3 The AIF’s commanders
- Chapter 4 Strategic planning between the wars
- Chapter 5 Identifying the threat from Japan in 1941
- Chapter 6 A pivotal year in Australian history: 1942
- Chapter 7 Australia and coalition warfare in the Second World War
- Chapter 8 Deciding Australia’s war strategy in 1943
- Chapter 9 Advancing national interests
- Chapter 10 Higher command in the Korean War
- Chapter 11 Higher direction of the army in the Vietnam War
- Chapter 12 The Gulf War, 1991
- Chapter 13 Deploying and sustaining INTERFET in East Timor in 1999
- Chapter 14 Developing a command structure for joint operations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
Book contents
- Strategy and Command
- Other titles in the Australian Army History Series
- Acknowledgement of Country
- Strategy and Command
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, maps and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The influence of the Boer War on Australia’s First World War commanders
- Chapter 2 Preparing for war, 1901–14
- Chapter 3 The AIF’s commanders
- Chapter 4 Strategic planning between the wars
- Chapter 5 Identifying the threat from Japan in 1941
- Chapter 6 A pivotal year in Australian history: 1942
- Chapter 7 Australia and coalition warfare in the Second World War
- Chapter 8 Deciding Australia’s war strategy in 1943
- Chapter 9 Advancing national interests
- Chapter 10 Higher command in the Korean War
- Chapter 11 Higher direction of the army in the Vietnam War
- Chapter 12 The Gulf War, 1991
- Chapter 13 Deploying and sustaining INTERFET in East Timor in 1999
- Chapter 14 Developing a command structure for joint operations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
For more than half a century I have been researching and writing about Australian military history, defence policy and intelligence. My first major article, written while I was a cadet at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1969, was on General William Sherman’s command during the Atlanta campaign in the United States Civil War. Since then I have written or edited thirty-five books and almost a hundred journal articles or book chapters. In these, my primary focus has been on two inter-related issues: strategy and command.
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- Strategy and CommandIssues in Australia's Twentieth-century Wars, pp. 1 - 3Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021