Garth Pratten
Assoc. Prof Garth Pratten
Qualifications
BA Hons (Melbourne), PhD (Deakin)

Associate Professor Garth Pratten is a senior lecturer at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre. An historian by training, he has had a varied career having worked for the Australian Army’s Training Command and the Australian War Memorial, and taught at Deakin University and in the War Studies Department at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Associate Professor Pratten was a member of the research staff for the Official History of Australia’s Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts and is currently contributing to the Official History of Australian Peackeeping and Post-Cold War Operations.
In 2010, while working for the British Ministry of Defence, he was deployed to Afghanistan as part of the team compiling the war diary for ISAF’s Regional Command South.
Associate Professor Pratten’s interest in the conduct of military operations has led him to conduct fieldwork in France, Belgium, Libya, Malaya, Singapore, Turkey, and Cyprus.
In April 2006, he was awarded the Australian Army’s CEW Bean prize for his PhD thesis, the book of which - Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War - was runner-up for the Templer Medal in 2010.

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