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Tom Hyland
Tom Hyland is a former foreign editor of the
Age
.
Books & Arts
Signing up for an invasion
Tom Hyland
16 April 2021
Books
| How did two very different leaders 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