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Research interests
Australian defence history, particularly strategy, command, intelligence and operations and current defence issues. His major research projects are the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping and Post-Cold War Operations, which is a joint ANU-Australian War Memorial project; and the Official History of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
Biography
Served for 25 years in the Australian Regular Army, including active service in South Vietnam; joined SDSC in 1990; Editor of the Army History Series (1994 to 2012); Head of the Australian Army's Land Warfare Studies Centre (1998 to 2002); adviser to TV programs. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He was awarded the UK Intelligence Book of the Year Prize for 2015, and was the joint winner of the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History for his book The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963
Qualifications
AM, DipMilStud (RMC), MA (Hons) (UNSW), PhD (ANU), FASSA
Expertise Areas
- Defence Studies
- International Relations
- Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
- Biography
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Strategy and Command: Issues in Australia's Twentieth-century Wars
Horner, D., 2022, 1 ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 336 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The War Game: Australian War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq
Horner, D., 2022, 1 ed. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 454 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The ‘fourth arm’ of Australia’s defence: ASIO and the early Cold War
Horner, D., 2021, Fighting Australia's Cold War: The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945-1965. Peter Dean and Tristan Moss (ed.). 1st ed. Canberra: ANU Press, p. 53-72Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Long Search for Peace: Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006
Londey, P., Crawley, R. & Horner, D., 2020, 1st ed. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 928 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Why was 5 RAR stationed at Nui Dat?
Horner, D., 2020, Vietnam Vanguard: The 5th Battalion's Approach to Counter-Insurgency, 1966. Ron Boxall & Robert O'Neill (ed.). 1st ed. Canberra: ANU Press, p. 21-44Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter