Dr
Martin Andrew was conferred his Doctor of Philosophy in February 2009.
He was a member of the Royal Australian Air Force from February 1977 to
February 2005. His Air Force career was in the areas of education
and training, and included postings to the Australian Joint Warfare
Establishment and the Royal Australian Air Force Staff College. For the
period 1991 to 2003, he was in the Northern Territory, a highlight
being an International Military Liaison Officer in Darwin with the
Foreign National Support Elements for their deployed forces in East
Timor from November 1999 to July 2000. These included South
Korean, Irish and Jordanian Special Forces elements, and the Fijian
Defence Force amongst others.
The fourth edition of his book, How the PLA Fights: Weapons and
Tactics of the People’s Liberation Army, is undergoing distribution
inside the United States Army. The third edition became the
warfighter’s handbook with the United States Army’s National Ground
Intelligence Center. In September 2009, the second edition of
his book, was published by the United States Army’s TRADOC
Intelligence Support Activity (TRISA) for Threats. Their mission is
to look at future training needs and scenarios for the United States
Army. TRISA published the first edition in September 2008.
In November 2011, the US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
published his work, ‘The Influence of U.S. Counterinsurgency
Operations in Afghanistan on the People’s Liberation Army’ as
Chapter Seven in Andrew Scobell, David Lai and Roy Kamphausen (Eds), Chinese
Lessons from Other Peoples’ Wars.
His monthly GI Zhou Newsletter on the Chinese military,
currently runs into one hundred and thirty-eight issues since 2000, and
is in use by a number of official United States Department of Defense
customers. Dr Andrew analyses, and, where necessary, translates
articles from over sixty Chinese language magazines yearly. His PhD
research project required extensive translation of Chinese and Russian
language materials.
Aside from the operational art of the People’s Liberation Army, he has
specialised in tactics of foreign military forces, from minor infantry
and close quarter battle tactics, up to brigade level. He has also
conducted research in the areas of:
- Insurgency
in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore including the outlying islands;
- The
origins of Communist guerrilla warfare in urban and rural areas,
- The
origins of close quarter battle by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric
Anthony Sykes in the International of Shanghai and their influence on
modern police and military tactics
- Terrorism;
- Intrastate
and interstate conflict in Central Asia, Chechnya and Dagestan, Georgia;
- Air
power, including ballistic missile defence and precision guided
munitions;
- Weapons
of mass destruction; and
- The
effects of military weapons on the human body.
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