John Blaxland
John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies, and Director ANU North America Liaison Office. He is a former Director ANU Southeast Asia Institute, and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU. He holds a PhD in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, an MA in History from ANU, a BA (Hons 1) from UNSW and is a graduate of the Royal Thai Army Command and Staff College and the Royal Military College, Duntroon (Blamey Scholar). He has extensive experience in the intelligence community including as a former Director Joint Intelligence Operations (J2), at Headquarters Joint Operations Command. In addition he was Australia’s Defence Attaché to Thailand and Burma/Myanmar. He is a member of the Australian Army Journal editorial board and also an occasional commentator in the media. He teaches a course entitled “Honeypots and Overcoats: Australian Intelligence in the World.”His publications include Revealin Secret: An Unofficial Hisotry of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber (UNSWP 2023); The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations (Routledge, 2021); Tipping the Balance in Southeast Asia? Thailand, the United States and China (SDSC, 2017); The Secret Cold War:The Official History of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation 1975-1989 (Allen & Unwin, 2016); The Protest Years (A&U, 2015); East Timor Intervention (MUP, 2015); The Australian Army From Whitlam to Howard (CUP, 2014), Strategic Cousins (MQUP, 2006) &c
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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.