O'Neill, Robert John

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O'NEILL, Robert John

O'NEILL, Robert John. Australian, b. 1936. Genres: Military/Defense/ Arms control, History, Biography, Bibliography. Career: Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1987. Armed Services Section Ed., Australian Dictionary of Biography. Officer, Australian Regular Army, 1958-68; Historical researcher, German univs. and archives, 1964-65; Sr. Lecturer in History, Royal Military College, Duntroon, 1967-69; Sr. Fellow, 1969-77, Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 1971-82, Professorial Fellow, 1977-82, in International Relations, Australian Natl. Univ; Australian Official Historian for the Korean War, 1970-82. Publications: The German Army and the Nazi Party 1933-39, 1966; Vietnam Task, 1968; Indo-China Tragedy, 1969; General Giap: Politician and Strategist, 1969; (with J. Fielding) A Select Bibliography of Australian Military History 1891-1939, 1978; Australia in the Korean War 1950-53, 2 vols., 1980-85. EDITOR: The Strategic Nuclear Balance, 1975; The Defence of Australia: Fundamental New Aspects, 1977; Insecurity! The Spread of Weapons in Indian and Pacific Oceans, 1978; (with D.M. Horner) New Directions in Strategic Thinking, 1981; The Conduct of East-West Relations in the 1980's, 1985; New Technology and Western Security Policy, 1985; Doctrine, the Alliance, and Arms Control, 1986; (with D. Schwartz) Hedley Bull on Arms Control, 1987; East Asia, the West, and International Security, 1987; Security in the Mediterranean, 1988; (with J. Vincent) The West and the Third World, 1990; (with B. Heuser) Securing Peace in Europe 1945-62, 1992; (with L. Freedman) War, Strategy and International Politics, 1992; (with J. Baylis) Alternative Nuclear Futures. Address: All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL, England.

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