John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australia National University and a former military intelligence officer. His publications include The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations (2012); Niche Wars: Australia in Afghanistan, 2001-2004 (2020); In From The Cold; Reflections on Australia’s Korean War (2020); A Geostrategic SWOT Analysis for Australia (2019); The Secret Cold War (2016); East Timor Intervention (2015); The Protest Years (2015); The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (2014); Strategic Cousins (2006); Revisiting Counterinsurgency (2006); Information era Manoeuvre (2003); Signals (1998), and Organising an Army (1989).