12
Jun
2018
Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors: Australia and the Threat from the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Russia Today
Dennis Richardson, AO; Michael Wesley, Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific, Paul Dibb, AM
Paul Dibb’s book is a unique Cold War memoir that gives insights into how Australia saw the threat from the Soviet Union in terms of both national intelligence assessments and ASIO’s operations against the Soviet Embassy. It reveals the crucial importance of the US-Australian base at Pine Gap for...
14
Jun
2018
Security in Northeast Asia: Looking forward to the next two decades
Hitoshi Tanaka
Northeast Asia is the most dynamic economic region of the world and one of its most geopolitically sensitive and troubled. The recent breakthroughs of the inter-Korean summits and (putative at the time of advertising) the North Korea-United States summit are a stark reminder that the Cold War has...
25
Jun
2018
SDSC War Studies Seminar: An Australian Band of Brothers
Dr Mark Johnston
In his most recent book, An Australian Band of Brothers, Dr Mark Johnston tells the story
of Don Company of the 2/43rd Australian Infantry Battalion – part of the 9th Division, which sustained more casualties and won more decorations than any other Australian division
in the Second World War. Like...
