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AUSTRALIAN MARITIME ISSUES 2007: SPC-A ANNUAL
War. He has contributed to information operations policy, planning and operations for
a variety of countries and coalitions. A graduate in Political Theory and Institutions, he
was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal for his work with United States European
Command. He is now serving in the Joint Effects Directorate in Headquarters Joint
Operations Command.
Dr Gary Weir
Dr Gary E. Weir is the Chief Historian at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency,
a Professor of History at the University of Maryland University College and a guest
investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He was previously the Head
of the Contemporary History Branch of the United States Naval Historical Center in
Washington DC. He specialises in the history of submarines, undersea warfare, and
the ocean sciences and is the author of Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian
Submarine that Fought the Cold War (Basic Books). An earlier study, Forged in War: The
Naval-Industrial Complex and American Submarine Construction, 1940–1961 received
the 1993 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize as the best book
in naval history published in that year. Another book, An Ocean in Common: Naval
Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment, 1919–1961, a study of the United States
Navy’s role as participant and patron in oceanographic research, was selected by the
Organization of American Historians as a recipient of the Richard W. Leopold Prize
for 2002.