Skip to content viewer section. In 1999, as Deputy Secretary for Strategy in the Australian Department of Defence, I had some involvement in strategic decisions about East Timor which led to the ...

the Australian-led and US-backed intervention in East Timor. Following the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the collapse of the Suharto regime in Indonesia, Washington and Canberra shifted ...

He has commanded at each level from platoon, company, combat team, battalion, battle group, brigade, and joint task force, to leading 36,000 people in the Australian Army’s Forces Command. Combat ...

East Timor has also issued rights to mine gold to joint ventures between Timorese companies and Australian miners, and started exploring onshore natural gas in central and eastern Timor ...

The Indonesian Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights Violations in East Timor (KPP-HAM) visited Dili in December and January; the defense team for Indonesian army officers considered possible ...