John Blaxland’s The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (Cambridge University Press, 2014) is, on its surface, a work of institutional history. It covers 35 years from Gough Whitlam’s election in 1972 to John Howard’s defeat in 2007 and catalogues more than 150 Army operations, most of them small, many forgotten, a handful transformative. But … Continue reading Before the Pivot: John Blaxland’s The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and the Long Road to Today’s Force