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Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, where he instructed in Joint
and Combined Operations and Counter Revolutionary Warfare and completed a Master
of Military Arts and Science Degree. For his service as an instructor at the Command
and General Staff College he was awarded the United States Army Meritorious Service
Medal. In 1993 he was the Military Assistant to the Chief of the General Staff and
during 1994 and 1995 he was Director of Army Research. Most recently he has been
the Deputy Chief of Army immediately prior to assuming his post as is Chief of Army.
In 1997 he was promoted to Brigadier and posted as Commander of the 3rd Brigade,
the Australian Defence Force’s Ready Deployment Force, and in April 1999 he was
appointed Chief of Staff at Headquarters Australian Theatre. He is a graduate of the
Australian Army Command and Staff College, the United States Army Command and
General Staff College, the British Higher Command and Staff Course and is a Fellow
of the Australian College of Defence and Strategic Studies. On 28 June 2002 he was
promoted to Lieutenant General and assumed the appointment of Chief of Army.
Dayton McCarthy was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School, emmanuel College,
University of Queensland, and University College, University of New South Wales,
where he obtained his PhD in 1997. He is the Club Vice Captain of the Coogee Surf
Life Saving Club and a Staff Cadet in the Sydney University Regiment. Currently he
is a manager at the Coogee Bay Hotel. His first book, The Once and Future Army:
A History of the Citizen Military Forces, 1947-1874, will be published by Oxford
University Press in February 2003.
Ian McGibbon is a senior historian in the History Group, Ministry for Culture and
Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand. A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington, he
has written extensively on aspects of New Zealand’s international relations or defence.
His publications include the two-volume official history of New Zealand’s involvement
in the Korean War, and two books on defence policy in the period 1840-1942. He
edited the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History (2000). His most recent
works are New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials of the Western Front (2001) and
Kiwi Sappers, The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers’ Century of Service (2002).
He is currently preparing the official history of New Zealand combat operations in the
Vietnam War. In 1997 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
for services to historical research.
Charles Morrisey is a civilian defence analyst in the Department of National Defence,
Ottawa. He worked in the Directorate of Defence Analysis, Director General Strategic
Planning, from July 1998 to July 2002 working on such projects as the Revolution in
Military Affairs, Joint experimentation, Capability Based Planning, and Asymmetric
Threats. In late July 2002 he joined the Directorate of Strategic Analysis, Assistant
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