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Michael Evans
Emeritus Professor at Deakin UniversityMichael Evans is Emeritus Professor of Military Studies at Deakin University, Canberra. He also holds international positions as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington DC, and as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the New Zealand Defence College, Trentham.
Born in Wales, and educated in Rhodesia, England and Australia, Professor Evans holds a BA History Hons (Rhodesia), an MA War Studies (King’s College London) and a PhD from The University of Western Australia. He held Fellowships at the University of York in England, the University of Cape Town, and the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy where he is an Adjunct Professor.
Professor Evans’ saw military service in Africa and he was a regular officer in the post-civil war Zimbabwe National Army where he worked alongside the British Army in the integration of two rival guerrilla armies into a conventional land force. From 1995-2023, he held several senior positions in the Australian Department of Defence including the General Sir Francis Hassett Chair of Military Studies (2013-23), the Command Fellowship at the Australian Defence College (2007-12); the Australian Army’s research and analysis organisation (2001-06); and responsibility for the
Australian Defence Force’s short course professional development program (2013-23). He is currently working on the development of an Army Profession for the Chief of Army.
His publications include 'Vincible Ignorance: Reforming Australian Professional Military Education for the Demands of the Twenty-First Century' (2023); 'Civil-Military Relations in Australia: Past, Present and Future' (2021), and 'The Tyranny of Dissonance: Australia’s Strategic Culture and Way of War, 1901-2005' (2005).