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The renowned military historian Sir Michael Howard once wrote that military history should be studied in width, depth and context. While history is only one strand of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre's research, Howard’s aphorism highlights a key element of the Centre’s approach to analysing strategic and security challenges.
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Australian Army Vessel Clive Steele disgorging a mobile carne at a beach near Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, October 1969. (AWM COM/69/0729/VN)
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German Army
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Canadian troops near Ortona in Italy, 10 December 1943. (National Archives of Canada PA 136332)
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Image: Australian war correspondent Chester Wilmot talking to some French commandos of 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando in in Amfreville, Normandy, on 9 June 1944.
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