John Blaxland

Dr John Blaxland is a Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU. He was recently appointed Director of the ANU North America Liaison Office in Washington, DC. his latest book (with Clare Birgin) is 'Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber' (UNSWP, 2023). His other publications include (with Greg Raymond) 'The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations' (Routledge, 2021), 'Niche Wars: Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq' (ANUP, 2020), 'I'm from the Cold: Australia in the Korean War' (ANUP 2020), 'A Geostrategic SWOT Analysis for Australia' (SDSC, ANU, 2019), 'The Protest Years', 'The Secret Cold War' (the second & third volumes of the ASIO official history, Allen & Unwin, 2015 & 2016), ' MANIS' (SDSC, ANU, 2016), 'East Timor Intervention (MUP 2015), The Australian Army From Whitlam to Howard (CUP, 2014), Strategic Cousins (MQUP, 2006), Revisiting Counterinsurgency (LWSC, 2006), Information era Manoeuvre (LWSC, 2002), Signals (Melbourne, 1999) and Organising an Army (SDSC, ANU, 1989). He is the first Australian to be awarded a Minerva Research Initiative grant for a project on "Thailand's Military, the USA and China". He is a member of the Australian Army Journal editorial board.