Academic Research Officer, Australian Army Research Centre
Academic Research Officer, Australian Army Research Centre
Dr John Nash is an Academic Research Officer at the Australian Army Research Centre. Previously he was a researcher at the Australian War Memorial for The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor. He was awarded a PhD from the Australian National University in 2019. He is also a Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, having completed 20 years’ fulltime and reserve service as a Maritime Warfare Officer. He was the inaugural winner of The McKenzie Prize for the Australian Naval Institute and Chief of Navy Essay Competition – Open Division, 2019. His most recent publications include the AARC Occasional Paper, Littoral Operations for the Australian Army – Theory and Principles, and the book Rulers of the Sea: Maritime Strategy and Sea Power in Ancient Greece, 550–321 BCE, Volume 8 in the series ‘De Gruyter Studies in Military History’. Other publications include articles in the Australian Army Journal, Journal of Advanced Military Studies (Spring 2024), the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (March-April 2022) and the US Naval War College Review (Winter 2018, Vol.71). His areas of research focus include sea power and maritime strategy, littoral warfare, land power, and strategic studies.