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Afghan sun : defence, diplomacy, development and the Taliban
Afghan Sun is a compelling account of modern Australian soldiers living and fighting during the Summer Fighting Season of 2008 in Uruzgan province. Opening the door on Australia's involvement in Afghanistan, we are able to glimpse for the first time ow the war has been managed and conducted from the perspective of one of the commanders on the ground. (Back of book).
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The Long Road
Helping neighbours and partners stabilise their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force.
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In from the Cold
Open hostilities in the Korean War ended on the 27th of July 1953. The armistice that was signed at that time remains the poignant symbol of an incomplete conclusion – of a war that retains a distinct possibility of resuming at short notice. So what did Australia contribute to the Korean War from June 1950 to July 1953? What were the Australians doing there? How significant was the contribution and what difference did it make? What has that meant for Australia since then, and what might that mean for Australia into the future? Australians served at sea, on land and in the air alongside their United Nations partners during the war. They fought with distinction, from bitterly cold mountain tops, to the frozen decks of aircraft carriers and in dogfights overhead. This book includes the perspectives of leading academics, practitioners and veterans contributing fresh ideas on the conduct and legacy of the Korean War. International perspectives from allies and adversaries provide contrasting counterpoints that help create a more nuanced understanding of Australia’s relatively small but nonetheless important contribution of forces in the Korean War. The book finishes with some reflections on implications that the Korean War still carries for Australia and the world to this day.
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Kokoda: and two national histories
Papua New Guinea has had great difficulty distilling the complex experiences of World War II into national history, but at the same time Australians have elevated and celebrated the significance of Kokoda. The 1942 battles on the Kokoda Track have been the subject of major Australian books and a feature film, and the numbers of trekkers on the Track have increased sharply. But in Papua New Guinea, Kokoda has been narrowing to an association with the Koiari and the Kokoda Orokaiva landowners. In Papua New Guinea, where the nation needs a sense of values and experiences in common, Kokoda is neither well known nor 'national'.
Journal Article
'Skylarking': Homosexual Panic and the Death of Private Kovco
In this essay, I analyse key examples of language used during the Kovco case in what I call a panic of reconstruction: attempts in media reports, ministerial press releases and inquiry testimony to restabilise the metonymic masculine and national embodiment of Private Kovco in the face of speculation and unknowing obscuring the circumstances of his death. Notably, a tension between key phrases from the testimony of one of Kovco's roommates and the military inquiry's ultimate findings illuminates the specific anxieties of homosexual panic that structures certain Western nationalist masculinities and the military culture built around their defence. Moreover, in revisiting Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work on homosexual panic, suggestive overlaps become apparent in the discursive regulations of homosociality that structure heteronormative masculinity and Orientalist figures of terrorism currently perceived as threats to it. The politics of responsibility and entitlement in relation to individual masculine subjects and nation-states provide a means, later in the essay, to unpack double standards around the legitimation of violence.
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'Skylarking': Homosexual Panic and the Death of Private Kovco
In this essay, I analyse key examples of language used during the Kovco case in what I call a panic of reconstruction: attempts in media reports, ministerial press releases and inquiry testimony to restabilise the metonymic masculine and national embodiment of Private Kovco in the face of speculation and unknowing obscuring the circumstances of his death. Notably, a tension between key phrases from the testimony of one of Kovco's roommates and the military inquiry's ultimate findings illuminates the specific anxieties of homosexual panic that structures certain Western nationalist masculinities and the military culture built around their defence. Moreover, in revisiting Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work on homosexual panic, suggestive overlaps become apparent in the discursive regulations of homosociality that structure heteronormative masculinity and Orientalist figures of terrorism currently perceived as threats to it. The politics of responsibility and entitlement in relation to individual masculine subjects and nation-states provide a means, later in the essay, to unpack double standards around the legitimation of violence.
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Soldiers and civil power
Peace operations became the core focus of many Western armed forces after the Cold War. The wish amongst political and military leaders during the 1990s to hold on to the classical identity of the armed forces as an instrument of force made them pursue a strict separation between military operations and the civilian aspects of peacekeeping, such as policing, administrative functions, and political and societal reconstruction. In his book Soldiers and Civil Power, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg argues that this policy failed to match up to reality. Supporting civil authorities, and at times even substituting them (de facto military governance), became the key to reaching any level of success in Cambodia, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. As a result of the false segregation between the civilian and the military domain, this was accomplished mostly by improvisation and creativity of commanders who probed for the limiting boundaries of their original mandate by reaching ever further into the civilian sphere. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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The elite paradigm driving Australian aid policy: Learning to live with the 'cautious consensus'
This article explores the underlying reasons for why the Albanese Labor Governmentʼs stated policy ambition to 'rebuild Australiaʼs international development program' has not yet been accomplished and is unlikely to be realised, at least in the near- to-medium term. Based on interviews conducted with 21 Australian Members of Parliament, we find that the 'cautious consensus' - a collection of ideas guiding elite perspectives on Australian aid policy that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic - has rapidly consolidated, to the point where it can now be considered a paradigm. We identify three main factors that have led to this consolidation: the declining salience of aid; growing elite scepticism about the usefulness of aid; and a combination of political challenges that are difficult for Labor to navigate, as it seeks to become a long-term Government. Given the prospects of shifting the unambitious status quo are unlikely in the in the near-to-medium term, we examine what 'living with the cautious consensus' means for the Australian development sector.
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Armenia, Australia & the Great War
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of the Ottoman Empire's Armenians. For the first time, this book tells the powerful, and until now neglected, story of how Australian humanitarians helped people they had barely heard of and never met, amid one of the twentieth century's most terrible human calamities. With 50 000 Armenian-Australians sharing direct family links with the Genocide, this has become truly an Australian story.
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Coalition challenges in Afghanistan : the politics of alliance
This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states. After laying out the challenges of the Afghan conflict in terms of objectives, strategy, and mission, case studies of 15 coalition members—each written by a country expert—discuss each country's motivation for joining the coalition and explore the impact of more than 10 years of combat on each country's military, domestic government, and populace.
The book dissects the changes in the coalition over the decade, driven by both external factors—such as the Bonn Conferences of 2001 and 2011, the contiguous Iraq War, and politics and economics at home—and internal factors such as command structures, interoperability, emerging technologies, the surge, the introduction of counterinsurgency doctrine, Green on Blue attacks, escalating civilian casualties, and the impact of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams and NGOs.
In their conclusion, the editors review the commonality and uniqueness evident in the country cases, lay out the lessons learned by NATO, and assess the potential for their application in future alliance warfare in the new global order.
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