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Tom Hyland
Tom Hyland is a former foreign editor of the
Age
.
Books & arts
An invasion’s long shadow
Tom Hyland
25 September 2023
An Iraqi journalist traces the creation of “one of the most corrupt nations on earth”
From the archive
Signing up for an invasion
Tom Hyland
16 April 2021
How did two very different leaders — Tony Blair and John Howard — come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”?
Essays & reportage
“Hard ill-fortune”: a lost distant cousin and a place called Pozières
Tom Hyland
25 April 2019
A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia
Books & arts
War’s long shadow
Tom Hyland
8 March 2018
Books
| A new account of postwar Australia challenges the myth that veterans were always treated with respect and sympathy
Books & arts
“What have I become?”
Tom Hyland
14 December 2017
Books
| Critics of Chris Masters’s account of special forces in Afghanistan have deflected attention from the book’s key message
National affairs
A dangerous game
Tom Hyland
5 April 2017
The campaign to hide the full truth of Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war continues
Books & arts
The truth about torture
Tom Hyland
26 January 2017
From the archive
| Outside TV drama, “enhanced interrogation” fails the evidence test, writes
Tom Hyland
in this review first published in June 2016
Books & arts
What is all this fighting for?
Tom Hyland
18 August 2016
Books
| The army is better equipped and trained than ever before, says
Tom Hyland
, but is it in the right shape to fight a war close to home?
Books & arts
An “ordinary guy” in extraordinary times
Tom Hyland
1 April 2016
Books
| David Kilcullen helps us make sense of the madness unleashed by Islamic State, writes
Tom Hyland.
But he’s less convincing about what we should do next
Books & arts
How good went bad in Afghanistan
Tom Hyland
4 March 2015
Books
| A new account of a long war lays bare a series of miscalculations and misunderstandings, writes
Tom Hyland
Books & arts
The worst-reported and least-understood foreign conflict in Australian history
Tom Hyland
22 January 2014
That’s the conclusion of a careful analysis of how the media handled Afghanistan, writes
Tom Hyland