Professor John Blaxland

Professor Blaxland lectures at ANU and the Australian Defence College and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon (Blamey Scholar), Royal Thai Army Command and General Staff College and Royal Military College of Canada (PhD in War Studies).

He is a former military intelligence officer with postings including as J2 HQ JOC, Defence Attache to Thailand and Myanmar, US intelligence exchange officer, and to the Defence Intelligence Organisation, Defence Signals Directorate and as Brigade S2 for INTERFET. He is also a former Head of SDSC and Director of the Southeast Asia Institute at ANU.

In addition to journal articles and chapters in edited works, Professor Blaxland’s publications include The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations (2021), Niche Wars: Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq (ANU Press, 2020), In From the Cold: Reflections on Australia’s Korean War, 1950-1953 (ANU Press, 2020), A Geostrategic SWOT Analysis for Australia (SDSC, ANU, 2019), The Secret Cold War: the official history of ASIO, Vol. III (Allen & Unwin 2016), The Protest Years: the official history of ASIO, Vol.II (Allen & Unwin, 2015), East Timor Intervention: a retrospective on INTERFET (MUP, 2015), The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (CUP, 2014), Strategic Cousins: Australian and Canadian Expeditionary Forces and the British and American Empires (MQUP, 2006), Revisiting Counterinsurgency: A Manoeuvrist Response to the ‘War on Terror’ for the Australian Army (Duntroon, Land Warfare Studies Centre, WP No. 131, 2006), Information Era Manoeuvre: The Australian Led Mission to East Timor (LWSC WP No. 118, 2002), Signals: Swift and Sure (Signals Committee, 1998), and Organising an Army: The Australian Experience 1957-1965 (SDSC, ANU, 1989).

Professor Blaxland is also an occasional media commentator.

Please note Professor Blaxland is based in Washington, DC.