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Dr Jack McCaffrie AM

Dr Jack McCaffrie AM

Visiting Fellow
UNSW Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr Jack McCaffrie served in the RAN as naval aviator and retired as a commodore. He is both a Visiting Fellow in the Naval Studies Group and an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at Wollongong University. Recent and current work includes a history of the Pacific Patrol Boat Program, with Chris Rahman, a contribution to a book on the RAN Chiefs of Naval Staff and a book examining the influences on RAN force development from 1955-1982.

Areas of interest

Naval history and maritime strategy

 
Email

jackmccaffrie@gmail.com

    • Positioning Navies for the Future. Sydney: Halstead Press, 2006. Edited.
    • A Historical Appreciation of Naval Aviation, edited with extended introduction, Sea Power Centre – Australia, 2008.
    • Safeguarding the Stocks, MRAG, 2009, contributing author.
    • Navies of South-east Asia: A Comparative Study, Routledge, UK, 2013. Co-authored with James Goldrick.
    • Australian Maritime Operations: Australian Maritime Doctrine 2, 2nd ed., Sea Power Centre-Australia, Canberra, 2017. Lead author.
    • Wings of Gold, Big Sky Publishing, Newport, NSW, 2020, co-authored with Trevor Rieck and Jed Hart.
    • Submarines in Southeast Asia – A Major Step”? in Geoffrey Till and Jane Chan, Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia: Nature, course and consequences, Routledge, UK, 2014.
    • ‘The U.S. Strategic Relationship with Australia’, with Chris Rahman, in Carnes Lord and Andrew S. Erickson, eds., Rebalancing U.S. Forces: Basing and Forward Presence in the Asia-Pacific, U. S. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD., 2014.
    • “The Navy in 1965: force structure, manpower and overseas deployments”, in Tom Frame, ed., The Australian Navy in Vietnam: lessons and Legacies from 1965, Barton Books, Canberra, 2015.
    • “First Flights: Aviation in the RAN 1914 – 1918”, in Andrew Forbes, ed., The War at Sea 1914 – 1918, Sea Power Centre, Canberra, 2016.
    • “The Republic of Korea Navy – on the path to greatness?” in Conrad Waters, ed., World Navies of the 21st Century, Seaforth, 2016.
    • “The Pacific Patrol Boat Program: Train, Advise and Assist in the South Pacific”, in Tom Frame, ed., The Long Road: Australia’s Train, Advise and Assist Mission, NewSouth Publishing, Kensington, NSW, 2017.
    • “Offensive air operations over Korea: the first challenge for Australian naval aviation”, in John Blaxland, et. al, eds, In From the Cold: Reflections on Australia’s Korean War, ANU Press, Acton, ACT, 2019.
    • “Vice Admiral Sir Henry Burrell, 1959 – 1962”, in James Goldrick and Alastair Cooper, eds., The Navy Chiefs: Australia’s naval leaders 1911-1997, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2024.
    • US Strategic Planning for the Indo-Pacific: Implications for ANZUS, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, for the Department of Defence, 2024.
    • Missile Defence and Operations in the Western Pacific, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, for the Department of Defence, 2024.
    • The ADF Role in Coalition Economic Warfare Operations, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, for the Department of Defence, 2024.
    • Australia’s Evolving Defence Requirements over the Coming Decade, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, for the Department of Defence, 2024.