Personal profile
Biography
Served for 25 years in the Australian Regular Army, including active service in South Vietnam; joined SDSC in 1990; Editor of the Army History Series (1994 to 2012); Head of the Australian Army's Land Warfare Studies Centre (1998 to 2002); adviser to TV programs. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He was awarded the UK Intelligence Book of the Year Prize for 2015, and was the joint winner of the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History for his book The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963
Qualifications
Research interests
Australian defence history, particularly strategy, command, intelligence and operations and current defence issues. His major research projects are the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping and Post-Cold War Operations, which is a joint ANU-Australian War Memorial project; and the Official History of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
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The Second World War in the Asia–Pacific
Horner, D., Jan 2025, The Cambridge History of Strategy: Volume 2: From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present. Duyvesteyn , I. & Heuser , B. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Vol. 2. (The Cambridge History of Strategy).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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War leadership
Horner, D., Aug 2023, Wartime Magazine, 102.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article
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Strategy and Command: Issues in Australia's Twentieth-century Wars
Horner, D., 2022, 1 ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 336 p. (Australian Army History Series)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The War Game: Australian War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq
Horner, D., 2022, 1 ed. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 454 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Eighty years of regional engagement: from Part 1 - The concept of an army’s influence abroad
Horner, D., 16 Nov 2021, An Army of Influence: Eighty Years of Regional Engagement. Cambridge University Press, p. 20-37Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Projects
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Official History of Peacekeeping, Volumes 1 and 4
Horner, D. (PI)
24/02/15 → 30/06/18
Project: Research
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The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online and Emerging Information Systems: Networking Research Capability
Griffiths, T. (PI), Brown, N. (CoI), Buckridge, P. J. (CoI), Davison, G. J. (CoI), Garton, S. R. (CoI), Garton, S. R. (CoI), Horner, D. (CoI), Jalland, P. (CoI), Langmore, D. (CoI), Macintyre, S. F. (CoI), Mackinnon, A. G. (CoI), McCalman, J. S. (CoI), McCarthy, G. J. (CoI) & Roe, J. I. (CoI)
9/02/06 → 8/02/07
Project: Research
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The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Enhancement Project
Griffiths, T. (PI), Buckridge, P. J. (CoI), Carment, D. S. (CoI), Davison, G. J. (CoI), Garton, S. R. (CoI), Garton, S. R. (CoI), Horner, D. (CoI), Jalland, P. (CoI), Macintyre, S. F. (CoI), Mackinnon, A. G. (CoI), McCalman, J. S. (CoI), Roe, J. I. (CoI) & Stannage, C. T. (CoI)
1/01/05 → 31/12/05
Project: Research