Terrorist Training Camp to be held in Canberra, September 2006
CHIEF OF ARMY’S HISTORY CONFERENCE
The topic in 2006 will be ‘Small Wars & Insurgencies’
The conference theme is small wars and insurgencies, and as in past years will draw on a range of speakers from Australia and overseas, in this case from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada and South Africa. There will be several themed panels at this year’s conference, dealing with the problems of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Ireland from both the Irish and British perspectives; southern Africa, with case studies of Rhodesia, South Africa and the Portuguese colonial experience; and Iraq, both in the interwar period and more recently.Other papers will deal with topics such as British counter-insurgency in the postwar Palestine mandate, and the challenge of stabilisation, reconstruction and nation-building operations in the post-Cold War environment.