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This article analyzes Australia's contribution to the Afghanistan War from 2001 to 2014. It recommends policymakers and practitioners consider applying a whole-of-government approach, embedding personnel in coalition headquarters, and limiting reliance on Special Forces soldiers in future interventions.

When war erupted in 1914, Britain embarked on its prewar plans of mobilising resources from its vast Empire, and created an imperial coalition which fought within a wider coalition with France, Russia and, later, the United States of America. This article examines the limited role performed by Australian naval and military forces within this wider imperial effort and assesses the extent to which Australian forces relied on British command, technology, and logistic support. It challenges common assumptions about Australia's wartime performance, including the degree to which Australian forces and commanders contributed to tactical innovation and wider planning and operational thought.

When war erupted in 1914, Britain embarked on its prewar plans of mobilising resources from its vast Empire, and created an imperial coalition which fought within a wider coalition with France, Russia and, later, the United States of America. This article examines the limited role performed by Australian naval and military forces within this wider imperial effort and assesses the extent to which Australian forces relied on British command, technology, and logistic support. It challenges common assumptions about Australia's wartime performance, including the degree to which Australian forces and commanders contributed to tactical innovation and wider planning and operational thought.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Intelligence in Australia -- 1 The state of Intelligence Studies: Australia in international context -- 2 A history of the Australian intelligence community -- 3 Military intelligence: Expectations and challenges -- Part II The intelligence cycle -- 4 Optimising open-source intelligence in the information age -- 5 Intelligence dissemination -- 6 FINNIT and the case for structural and legislative reform: A priority for the twenty-first century -- Part III Australia's intelligence relationships -- 7 Secret friends: Intelligence cooperation and counterterrorism -- 8 Intelligence leadership and capability development: A crucial partnership -- 9 Managing reputational risk in national intelligence: Comparative lessons from Australia, Canada and New Zealand -- Part IV Current trends, future challenges -- 10 Conceptualising proportionality and its relation to metadata -- 11 Cyber warfare: Opportunities and threats -- 12 Cyber security -- Index.

Volume I of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982, and follows them through to 2006, which is the end point of this series. The operations described in The Long Search for Peace - some long, some short; some successful, some not - represent a long period of learning and experimentation, and were a necessary apprenticeship for all that was to follow. Australia contributed peacekeepers to all major decolonisation efforts: for thirty-five years in Kashmir, fifty-three years in Cyprus, and (as of writing) sixty-one years in the Middle East, as well as shorter deployments in Indonesia, Korea and Rhodesia. This volume also describes some smaller-scale Australian missions in the Congo, West New Guinea, Yemen, Uganda and Lebanon. It brings to life Australia's long-term contribution not only to these operations but also to the very idea of peacekeeping.