This book describes the development of the Army and its evolution from the colonial armies of Federation to the modern, professional force it is today. It reveals that the Army's organization is the result of complex interactions between the government's fiscal and security policies, the desires of the public, and the ambitions of military leaders.

The Australian Army: A History of Its Organisation 1901-2001 (The ^AAustralian Army History Series)

History

Palazzo, Albert

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

This work fills a significant gap in the Army's history. It focuses on the development of the Army's organisation and its evolution from the colonial armies of Federation to the moden, professional force it is today.

The Australian Army

OUP Australia and New Zealand

Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I

Seeking Victory on the Western Front examines how, in the face of the devastating firepower advantages that modern weapons offered the Germans, the British army developed the means to reclaim the offense and break the stalemate of the western front to defeat their enemy. Within this context, Albert Palazzo demonstrates the importance of gas warfare to Britain's tactical success and argues that it was a much more efficient weapon than past historians have suggested. Despite British notions of tradition, gentlemanly conduct, and fair fighting, the high command realized that the war was to be won by employing new technologies and techniques to counteract the defensive advantages their well-fortified and entrenched opponent enjoyed on the western front. Through his study of the evolution of chemical warfare, Palazzo demonstrates that the British made the necessary transformation by successfully incorporating new weapons and tactics into their existing method of waging war. As a result, they created a new operational system that allowed the attacker to negate the defender's firepower advantage at all levels.

Europe

University Of Nebraska Press

Seeking Victory on the Western Front examines how, in the face of the devastating firepower advantages that modern weapons offered the Germans, the British army developed the means to reclaim the offense and break the stalemate of the western front to defeat their enemy. Within this context, Albert Palazzo demonstrates the importance of gas warfare to Britain's tactical success and argues that it was a much more efficient weapon than past historians have suggested. Despite British notions of tradition, gentlemanly conduct, and fair fighting, the high command realized that the war was to be won by employing new technologies and techniques to counteract the defensive advantages their well-fortified and entrenched opponent enjoyed on the western front. Through his study of the evolution of chemical warfare, Palazzo demonstrates that the British made the necessary transformation by successfully incorporating new weapons and tactics into their existing method of waging war. As a result, they created a new operational system that allowed the attacker to negate the defender's firepower advantage at all levels. Albert Palazzo is a research associate in the School of History at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Military

Bison Books

Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 the Second World War came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat.

Battle of Crete

Big Sky Publishing

From 1962 to 1972 Australia joined the United States in fighting a communist inspired insurgency war in the jungles of South Vietnam against infiltrators who sought to overthrow the local government. Over 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam, 519 lost their lives, and the conflict ended ignominiously in the insurgents’ victory. Although now in the past, the Vietnam War resonates with lessons for the Australian Army as it strives to defeat not Communism but Terrorism. Australian Military Operations in Vietnam highlights some of the successes and failures of an earlier generation of officers for the benefit of today’s leaders.

Australian Military Operations in Vietnam (Australian Army Campaigns)

Asia

Australian Military Operations in Vietnam (Australian Army Campaigns Series)

Army History Unit

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Books by Palazzo, Albert

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The Australian Army: A History of Its Organisation 1901-2001 (The ^AAustralian Army History Series)

The Australian Army

Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I

Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I

Battle of Crete

Australian Military Operations in Vietnam (Australian Army Campaigns)

Australian Military Operations in Vietnam (Australian Army Campaigns Series)