Military History Supremo

    Military History Supremo

    Essays in Honour of David Horner AM FASSA

    Edited by: Joan Beaumont orcid, Garth Pratten orcid
     
    DOI: http://doi.org/10.22459/MHS.2025

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    Professor Emeritus David Horner AM FASSA is one of Australia’s greatest military historians and its fifth official historian of war and military operations. Few who undertake research in the field can do so without consulting his prodigious, authoritative and definitive publications. Serving for 25 years in the Australian Army before joining The Australian National University, Horner is the epitome of the soldier–scholar and has played a key role in establishing military history as an academic discipline in Australia.

    This volume honours Horner’s long career of service to history and the nation. Authors pay tribute to Horner’s legacy by engaging with his scholarship, applying his conclusions to new case studies and contexts, reflecting and expanding on the subjects he addressed and the methodologies he employed, and pushing the boundaries of the discipline he was instrumental in founding. The breadth of Horner’s research is demonstrated by the subjects and themes they address, including strategic planning and policy, command, multinational operations, intelligence and defence policy. Military History Supremo both underscores Horner’s contribution to Australia’s military and intelligence history and highlights the vibrancy and relevance of the field today.

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    ISBN (print):
    9781760466831
    ISBN (online):
    9781760466848
    Publication date:
    Jun 2025
    Imprint:
    ANU Press
    DOI:
    http://doi.org/10.22459/MHS.2025
    Disciplines:
    Arts & Humanities: History; Social Sciences: Military & Defence Studies
    Countries:
    Australia

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    Part I: David Horner as soldier, scholar and colleague

    1. Understanding the ‘mechanism of war’: the making of a soldier–scholar (PDF, 241 KB) – Garth Pratten doi
    2. Living the legacy: David Horner and Official History in Australia (PDF, 133 KB) – Craig Stockings doi

    Part II: Strategy and high command

    1. The psychology of strategic decision-making: Ambon 1941–42 (PDF, 568 KB) – Joan Beaumont doi
    2. Why Australia has gone to war: some reflections on the nineteenth century (PDF, 157 KB) – Jean Bou doi
    3. History frames policy: David Horner and the future of Australia’s defence (PDF, 181 KB) – Hugh White doi

    Part III: Command and commanders

    1. A ‘Crisis of Command’ in Bengal, 1849–50: a Hornerian analysis (PDF, 2.6 MB) – Peter Stanley doi
    2. Filling the gap: Lieutenant General Sir Harold ‘Hooky’ Walker KCB, KCMG, DSO: a study in command (PDF, 1.9 MB) – Chris Roberts doi

    Part IV: Coalition warfare

    1. The four pillars of human interoperability for multinational military integration: the Australian experience (PDF, 254 KB) – Steven Paget doi
    2. ‘Everybody doing their thing’: coalition warfare in southern Afghanistan, 2006–10 (PDF, 1.5 MB) – Rhys Crawley and Garth Pratten doi

    Part V: Intelligence

    1. Codebreaking in the Asia-Pacific War: struggle and triumph, May 1942 to December 1944 (PDF, 166 KB) – Richard Frank doi
    2. David Horner, intelligence history and Venona (PDF, 635 KB) – John Blaxland doi

    Part VI: Changing environments

    1. The history of the Australian Defence Force and space (PDF, 198 KB) – Tristan Moss doi
    2. Soldiers as peacekeepers, peacekeepers as soldiers: the Australian experience (PDF, 213 KB) – Peter Londey doi
    3. Disappointing the dragon: an Australian strategy and a fourth armed service for the grey zone (PDF, 204 KB) – Bob Breen doi

    Part VII: Epilogue

    1. Australia’s war dead: government policy, military practice and the Vietnam War (PDF, 199 KB) – Kate Ariotti doi

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