Robert J. O'Neill

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Robert John O'Neill , AO (born November 5, 1936 in Melbourne ) is an Australian officer and military historian .

Life

O'Neill served in the Australian Army from 1955 to 1968 . From 1955 to 1958 the Royal Military College Duntroon . From 1959 to 1960 he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Melbourne . He studied at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford from 1961 to 1965 and obtained his DPhil with Norman H. Gibbs . As an intelligence officer of the 5th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment , he was deployed in the Vietnam War in 1966/67 , his rank as captain at the time . In 1968 he resigned as a major .

He worked at the Strategic and Defense Studies Center at the Australian National University and was the Official Australian Historian of the Korean War . From 1971 to 1982 he headed the Strategic and Defense Studies Center there. From 1982 to 1987 he was director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and from 1987 to 2000, he Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College of the University of Oxford . In 1988 he was a guest speaker at the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives . He is u. a. Member of the Royal Historical Society .

From 2000 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra. From 2003 to 2005 he was Deputy Chairman of Board of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney and from 2006/07 Planning Director at the United States Studies Center at the University of Sydney. Since 2003 he has been director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney.

O'Neill is married and has two children.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The German Army and the Nazi Party, 1933–1939, London: Cassell 1966
  • Vietnam Task: The 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, 1966–67, Cassell Australia 1968
  • Indo China tragedy, 1945–1954, Melbourne, Canberra, 1968
  • General Giap - Politician and Strategist, Praeger 1969
  • The Army in Papua New Guinea; current role and implications for independence, Canberra: Australian National University Press 1971
  • Australia in the Korean War 1950-53, Canberra: Australian War Memorial, Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1981, 1985
  • Editor with Lawrence Freedman, Paul Hayes: War, strategy, and international politics: essays in honor of Sir Michael Howard, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1992
  • Editor with DM Horner: New directions in strategic thinking, Allen and Unwin 1981
  • Editor with DM Horner: Australian defense policy for the 1980s, St Lucia, New York: University of Queensland Press, 1982.
  • Editors: East Asia, the West, and international security, Hamden: Archon Books 1987
  • Editor with John Baylis: Alternative Nuclear Futures: the role of nuclear weapons in the post-cold war world, Oxford University Press 2000
  • Editor: I am soldier: war stories from the ancient world to the 20th century, Osprey 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Royal Australian Regiment, accessed December 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.5rar.asn.au
  2. ^ Search Australian Honors: Officer of the Order of Australia , Australian Government, accessed December 12, 2014.
  3. ^ Search Australian Honors: Centenary Medal , Australian Government, accessed December 12, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME O'Neill, Robert J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Neill, Robert John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian officer and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne