Action Action Action: The History of the Employment of Australian Artillery 1871 - 2021
Over one hundred and fifty years ago, on 1st August 1871, the Colony of New South Wales raised its first p...
Australian Code Breakers
On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audacious...
The Truth of War: Lethality in Combat, a Study of the Real Nature of Battle
The Truth of War unveils a penetrating exploration of the most contentious facets of military combat, delving into the n...
The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: How Sailors lived, fought and died in Australia's greatest naval disaster
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of...
Battle of the Atlantic: Royal Australian Air Force in Coastal Command 1939-1945
At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident — and just as the first shots of the war were fired — young Au...
The Battle of Maryang San 1951
For Australia, the Korean War marked its first foray as a minor power in the Cold War and it would be the first conflict to be fought by the newly formed Australian ...
The Battles Before: Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership After the Vietnam War
Much of Australia’s military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an a...
Military History Series - Conducting Counterinsurgency
Reconstruction Task Force 4 (RTF4) deployed to Uruzgan province, central Afghanistan, in 2008 as part of Operation Slipper - Aust...
Campaign Series - To Kokoda
When the Japanese war machine swept through South-East Asia in early 1942, it was inevitable that conflict would reach Australian territory on the island of New Guinea....
Campaign Series - The August Offensive at Anzac 1915
The August Offensive or 'Anzac Breakout' at Gallipoli saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish t...
Campaign Series - The Battle of Menin Road 1917
The Third Ypres Campaign (Passchendaele) of 1917 is associated with images of slimy, oozing mud: mud deep enough and glutinous enough to drown men, h...
Campaign Series - The Battle of Polygon Wood 1917
Buoyed by the success of the 1st and 2nd Australian divisions in the Battle of Menin Road, the men of the 4th and 5th Australian divisions filed in...
