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warfare
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”?
National Affairs
Brereton’s unfinished business
Hamish McDonald
14 April 2021
With the war crimes unit getting to work, will Afghan victims be compensated and whistleblowers protected?
Books & Arts
Crossing the war-reporting lines
Sara Dowse
5 March 2021
Books
| Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war
Books & Arts
Known unknowns
Jane Goodall
14 December 2020
Television
| The highs and occasional lows of
Four Corners
’ coverage of 2020
Essays & Reportage
After the battle
Nicholas Stuart
28 November 2020
The revelations about the Special Forces challenge one of Australia’s great foundational myths
Correspondents
Cancelling Bismarck
Klaus Neumann
18 November 2020
Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene”
National Affairs
Weighing the costs of war
Paul Barratt
12 November 2020
With the federal government appointing a special war crimes prosecutor, it’s time to confront broader questions about armed interventions
From the archive
The telegram
Anne-Marie Condé
11 November 2020
A flimsy piece of paper carried grave news for a family in wartime Balmain
Books & Arts
Good war, long war, whose war?
Antonia Finnane
9 November 2020
Books
| China is reshaping how its citizens view the second world war
Books & Arts
A story of the twentieth century
Frank Bongiorno
30 September 2020
Books
| The second volume of
Dunera Lives
profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Essays & Reportage
“Before Noumea, there was only London, Washington and Ottawa”
Nic Maclellan
18 September 2020
Eighty years after helping defend New Caledonia against Japan, Australia is mobilising to counter another rising Asian power
Books & Arts
The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2020
Books
| The influential
New Yorker
article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
Books & Arts
Behind fascist lines
Seumas Spark
15 July 2020
Books
| Katrina Kittel illuminates a little-discussed chapter in Australia’s second world war
Essays & Reportage
Double-edged sword
Mark Baker
23 June 2020
Recipients of the Victoria Cross are expected to lead exemplary lives. What happens when one of them doesn’t?
International
The fall of Robert E. Lee
Janna Thompson
9 June 2020
How the reputation of a “good Confederate” was made and unmade
Books & Arts
War by other means
Tom Uren
28 April 2020
Books
|
The Hacker and the State
vividly describes the growing importance of cyber operations in nation armouries
Books & Arts
Frontier thinking
Henry Reynolds
27 April 2020
Books
| Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers
From the archive
The myth of the abusive protesters
Tom Greenwell
24 April 2020
Bestselling historian Paul Ham stands by allegations that anti–Vietnam war activists confronted veterans at airports and in the streets. But where’s the evidence?
Essays & Reportage
The meaning of Anzac Day
Graeme Dobell
24 April 2020
Australia has reshaped its understanding of what we mark on 25 April
From the archive
“My God, it would have been easier than I thought”
Mark Baker
24 April 2020
The Gallipoli campaign wasn’t the pointless disaster of Anzac mythology
Books & Arts
Picasso, Dior and the remarkable House of Glass
Sara Dowse
9 April 2020
Books
| A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Essays & Reportage
Tyrannical power exercised untyrannically?
Catherine Bond
1 April 2020
Laws made during a crisis don’t always receive the scrutiny they deserve
International
Doomsday postponed
Andy Butfoy
13 March 2020
Did a fifty-year-old treaty really increase the possibility of nuclear war?
Books & Arts
Uneasy peace
Peter Stanley
15 December 2019
Books
| A new collection of essays brings further proof that Great War history is unavoidably political
Essays & Reportage
Recalling the consequences of Keynes’s ‘Economic Consequences of the Peace’
Selwyn Cornish and John Hawkins
12 December 2019
Keynes’s book on the Versailles Treaty not only predicted dire results, but also provided guidance for those planning the global economic system following the second world war
International
The paradox of the People’s Liberation Army
Kerry Brown and Sophie Wushuang Yi
4 December 2019
Tightly controlled and generously funded, the PLA hasn’t seen battle overseas since 1979
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
Languages of resistance
Sylvia Martin
22 April 2019
In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences
Books & Arts
A story that refuses to accept its own moral
Tom Greenwell
17 April 2019
Books
| Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination?
Books & Arts
Fighting for face
Nick Haslam
14 March 2019
Books
| What makes political leaders take their country to war?
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