Chasing Bandits in the Badlands
Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993
$33.59
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
18 January 2023
Summary
In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve under American command in a violent, impoverished, starving society. Most males over the age of twelve either carried or had access to a gun, and most Somali men had been fighting a vicious civil war for years.
Australian soldiers and their teams had to gain control of the streets of Baidoa and surrounding towns. This contest was not ‘find, fight and kill’ warfare. There was no decisiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922896209 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922896209 |
| Author: | Bob Breen |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 18 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 268g |
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Bob Breen
Associate Professor Bob Breen OAM is Director, Defence Professional PhD Program, at Deakin University and a former Colonel in the Australian Army. His first publication in 1988 was First to Fight, a history of the first tour of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment group in Vietnam in 1965-66.
He served as Colonel (Operations Analysis) for Land Commander-Australia from 1992 until 2002. During this time, he conducted first-hand research in:
- Somalia (1993)
- Rwanda (1994-95)
- The Middle East and Mozambique (1996)
- Bougainville and Timor Leste (then East Timor) periodically (1997-2002)
He has published several books drawing on this first-hand experience of Australian post-Cold War operations, including a volume of the Official History on Australian peace support operations in the Pacific Islands (1980-2006).
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