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 ...

Dr Rodger Shanahan is a former army officer and Middle East ... East Timor, Lebanon during the 2006 war and Afghanistan. He also served in Defence Attache positions in the Australian Embassies ...

with the PBG in East Timor, in Beirut during the 2006 war, and in Afghanistan. He was the former director of the Army's Land Warfare Studies Centre, and has also been posted to the Australian ...