Books & Arts
16 April 2021
Books | How did two very different leaders come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”?
Essays & Reportage
25 April 2019
A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia
Books & Arts
8 March 2018
Books | A new account of postwar Australia challenges the myth that veterans were always treated with respect and sympathy
Books & Arts
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
5 April 2017
The campaign to hide the full truth of Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war continues
Books & Arts
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
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
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
4 March 2015
Books | A new account of a long war lays bare a series of miscalculations and misunderstandings, writes Tom Hyland
Books & Arts
22 January 2014
That’s the conclusion of a careful analysis of how the media handled Afghanistan, writes Tom Hyland