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The history of Australian military geography is poorly recorded. This appears to be a first historical description of Australia’s contribution to military geography. This is rather surprising given geography’s links to Australia’s history of settlement, frontier wars and expeditionary wars, and the importance of war memorials in the Australian landscape and culture. Using a few key themes, periods and profiles of several individuals, it becomes clear that there is a need for a more deliberate effort to consider the sub-discipline of military geography in Australia. Such an effort would start to close a gap that is similarly reported in Canada’s and South Africa’s military geography. In Australia, discussions of military geography are held mainly in government whereas strategy is discussed in international relations. There is superficially little academic interest in military geography. In Australian government, business and military there are people using integrated human and biophysical geography. There is potential for this to be a growing dialogue organised in a sub-discipline of military geography. A narrative history of this sub-discipline will inform users of military geography and identify where future efforts may best contribute.
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Pearson, S. (2018). Australian Contributions to the History of Military Geography. In: Pearson, S., Holloway, J., Thackway, R. (eds) Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography. Advances in Military Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73408-8_2
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