Skip to content viewer section. In 1999, as Deputy Secretary for Strategy in the Australian Department of Defence, I had some involvement in strategic decisions about East Timor which led to the ...

He has commanded at each level from platoon, company, combat team, battalion, battle group, brigade, and joint task force, to leading 36,000 people in the Australian Army’s Forces Command. Combat ...

the Australian-led and US-backed intervention in East Timor. Following the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the collapse of the Suharto regime in Indonesia, Washington and Canberra shifted ...

Australian Doctor Andrew MacNaughtan was in Tokyo with the Timorese. In an interview with SBS radio Portuguese language programme he said that Australia first violated East Timor neutrality ...

Solomon Islands and East Timor. In his senior Army leadership appointments, McLachlan was responsible for generating Australian Defence capability in cyberspace, electronic warfare and command and ...

Dr Rodger Shanahan is a former army officer and Middle East ... East Timor, Lebanon during the 2006 war and Afghanistan. He also served in Defence Attache positions in the Australian Embassies ...