Tom Hyland is a former foreign editor of the Age.
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      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”
      
    
  
  
          
        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”?
      
    
  
  
          
        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
      
    
  
  
          
        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
      
        
      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
      
    
  
  
          
        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
      
    
  
  
          
        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
      
        
      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
      
        
      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
      
        
      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
      
        
      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    
  
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