Tom Frame - The Long Road: Australias Train, Advise and Assist Missions

THE

LONG ROAD

PROFESSOR TOM FRAME is the Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (ACSACS) at UNSW Canberra. He served as a naval officer for 15 years and completed postgraduate studies in history, theology and sociology before being ordained to the Anglican ministry. He has been Bishop to the Australian Defence Force, patron of the Armed Forces Federation of Australia, a member of the Council of the Australian War Memorial, and judged the inaugural Prime Ministers Prize for Australian History. Professor Frame is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Shores of Gallipoli; Living by the Sword? The ethics of armed intervention; On Ops: Lessons and challenges for the Australian Army since East Timor; and Anzac Day Then & Now.

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Tom Frame 2017
First published 2017

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This book is copyright. While copyright of the work as a whole is vested in Tom Frame, copyright of individual chapters is retained by the chapter authors. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher.

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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Title: The Long Road: Australias train, advise and assist missions / edited by Tom Frame
ISBN: 9781742235080 (paperback)

9781742242736 (ebook)

9781742248219 (ePDF)

Series: ACSACS series; 4.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Australian Defence Force.
International relations.
Australia Foreign relations.
Australia Military policy.
Other Creators/Contributors:
Frame, T. R. (Thomas R.), 1962editor.

Design Josephine Pajor-Markus
Cover image Corporal Cameron Butler, an engineer with the First Mentoring Task Force, shares a joke or two with Sergeant Gul Rahman from the Afghan National Army. Commonwealth of Australia, Defence Image Library.
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ACSACS SERIES

This book is part of a series produced by the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (ACSACS) a UNSW Canberra Research Centre at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). ACSACS seeks to become the preeminent Australian venue for assessing the past, present and likely future impact of armed conflict on institutions and individuals in order to enhance public policy and raise community awareness through multi-disciplinary scholarship of the kind this series of books embody.

Established in 2012, ACSACS utilises the strength of academic research conducted at UNSW Canberra and draws on the universitys close and continuing relationship with Defence that began in 1967. In bringing together acknowledged experts in diverse fields of study, the centre hopes to produce creative solutions to a variety of problems, whether questions of history or challenges in policy.

ACSACS also serves as a significant focal point for academic activity prompted by the Centenary of the Great War (201418), the 75th anniversary of the Second World War (201420), the 50th anniversary of Australias involvement in the Vietnam Conflict (201522) and the 25th anniversary of the first Gulf War (199091). ACSACS is well placed to interpret these stories of valour for the thousands of local commemorations being planned across the nation. With its hugely significant database of 1st AIF personnel and computer-assisted analysis of Australian Taskforce-Vietnam operations, the centres resources are indispensable tools for those researching Australias war effort.

The titles published within the ACSACS series will engage both specialist and general audiences with the expectation that individual titles will become standard reference works or textbooks for undergraduate and graduate teaching at UNSW. The subjects reflect the centres principal areas of interest: the Australian experience of military operations and armed conflict with a particular focus on history, ethics and economics.

The centres website is: <>.

Previous Titles

Moral Injury: Unseen Wounds in an Age of Barbarism, 2015

Anzac Day Then & Now, 2016

On Ops: Lessons and challenges for the Australian Army since East

Timor, 2016

CONTRIBUTORS

THE HONOURABLE KEVIN ANDREWS MP has been a member of the Australian Commonwealth Parliament since 1991, serving as the member for the Victorian seat of Menzies in the House of Representatives. He has held a number of Ministerial appointments during his time in Parliament, most recently as Minister for Defence (20142015). Kevin studied Law and Arts at Melbourne University before completing a Master of Laws at Monash University. Before his election to parliament, Kevin served as an Associate to Sir James Gobbo in the Victorian Supreme Court before practising law at the Victorian Bar. He was named Australian Young Lawyer of the Year for his community work in establishing a legal scheme for disaster victims, and for publishing a book for seniors about the law.

DR JOHN BLAXLAND is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He is a former Director Joint Intelligence Operations at Australias Headquarters Joint Operations Command and was Australias Defence Attach to Thailand and Burma from 20082010. His publications include The Protest Years (2015), East Timor Intervention (2015), The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (2014), Strategic Cousins (2006), Revisiting Counterinsurgency (2006), Information era Manoeuvre (2002), Signals (1999) and Organising an Army (1998). He is a 2014 Minerva Research Initiative grant recipient for a project entitled Thailands Military, the United States and China.

ANDREW BLYTH is Centre Manager, ACSACS at UNSW Canberra. Andrew is the former CEO of the ACT & Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former CEO, Energy Networks Association, and a former Chief of Staff in the Howard Government. He holds an undergraduate degree in Government and postgraduate degrees in International Relations and Business. In 2012 he was awarded a Fulbright Professional Scholarship in AustraliaUnited States Alliance Studies and conducted his research into off-grid energy solutions at the University of Texas at Austin. Andrew has been admitted as a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

SUPERINTENDENT JASON BYRNES joined the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in 1991 and has undertaken various policing roles at the local, national and international levels. Key domestic postings have included ACT Policing, managing federal operations in Far North Queensland, and coordinating the investigation into complaints of serious misconduct and corruption made against AFP employees. He has been a member of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus and was Deputy Contingent Commander of an AFP contingent in Afghanistan. Jason is currently the Coordinator Strategic Commitments in the AFPs International Operations portfolio, responsible for supporting AFP peacekeeping and capacity building missions in nine countries.