Great to see the Brisbane Lions win the AFL Grand Final (especially as I am an old Fitzroy Lions fan from the VFL days)

Forgotten Wars and the British Army in Northern Ireland are both quite good.

Had a surprise visitor in the backyard this evening who I have just relocated to our local State Forest.

I may be stretching the definition of history a bit in a couple of different directions for #histbookchat#photofriday this week

I lie awake at night wondering in dread if something I slapped together after no sleep and too much coffee to get the Chief of Staff off my back is going to end up on Defense Charts.

Amazing what you can download onto your Kindle for free on Amazon Prime #histbookchat#photofriday

‘“Billionaire” celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans’, you say? Reminds me of someone…

It’s been a while since I’ve done a #histbookchat so here’s two books that arrived in the mail yesterday. Between a family connection to 2/31st Bn and being a gunner myself these books tick a couple of boxes for me.

This is a pretty good dissection of a book and author I am embarrassed to admit I took seriously around the time it was published. (Although, even then, I was unimpressed when he wrote about topics I was more familiar with, like 20th century warfare)

I scored a few Australian military biographies at the garrison library while I was doing reserve work this week - thanks to the poll I ran on Twitter, I’ll be making a start on Morshead this weekend #histbookchat