Dr Richard Dunley

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Dr Richard Dunley is a Senior Lecturer in history and maritime strategy in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), UNSW Canberra.

Research Interests

British naval & strategic policy c.1856-1920
British diplomatic history c.1856-1920
Maritime Strategy - historic and contemporary
Naval technology
Australian defence policy & strategy

Phone

+61 2 5114 5080

E-mail

r.dunley@unsw.edu.au

Books | 2018

Dunley R, 2018, Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915 Culture, Strategy and International Law, Springer

Books | 2018

Dunley R, 2018, Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915, Springer International Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72820-9
Book Chapters | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Middle Power Aircraft Carriers: The Experience of the Royal Australian Navy in the Era of the Korean War', in Coalition Navies during the Korean War Understanding Combined Naval Operations, Taylor & Francis, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032626574-6

Book Chapters | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'The First World War at Sea: A Tale of Two Wars', in The Routledge History of the First World War, Taylor & Francis, pp. 103 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003363439-9

Book Chapters | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'The "Problem of Asia" and Imperial Competition Before World War I', in The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific Strategy, Order, and Regional Security, Georgetown University Press, pp. 151 - 168, https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-New-Age-of-Naval-Power-in-the-Indo-Pacific

Book Chapters | 2022

Dunley R; Morgan Owen D, 2022, 'Naval History, Maritime Strategy, and the Role of Technology', in Power in the Maritime Domain: A Global Dialogue, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003298984

Book Chapters | 2014

Dunley RE, 2014, '‘“The Most Resistless and Revolutionary Weapon of Naval Warfare that has Ever Been Introduced”: The Royal Navy and the Whitehead Torpedo 1870-1890’', in A Military Transformed? Adaption and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945, Helion & Company Limited
Journal articles | 2025

Dunley R; Kempf E, 2025, 'Inhumane, treacherous or uselessly cruel? Debating underwater weapons, 1880–1939', Critical Military Studies, 11, pp. 414 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2025.2509450

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Australianised military off-the-shelf: Australia's naval ship design ethos and the Anzac Class frigates', Marine Policy, 161, pp. 106003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106003

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Plan B?: Reconsidering Australian Security in the event of a post US alliance era', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 78, pp. 479 - 497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2024.2369788

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Small Mobile Pieces of National Sovereignty?—Uncrewed Vessels, Naval Diplomacy, and the Challenge of Signaling', Naval War College Review, https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol77/iss1/4/

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'The End of the Age of Transoceanic Navies?: Democratisation of A2/AD and the Relationship Between Land and Sea Power', Rusi Journal, 169, pp. 54 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2024.2391354

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Without it We're STUFT: Australian Military Logistics and Ships Taken up from Trade', Australian Army Journal, 20, pp. 15 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.61451/2675151

Journal articles | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'The end of the ‘lucky country’? Understanding the failure of the AUKUS policy debate', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77, pp. 317 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2210278

Journal articles | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'Uncrewed naval vessels and the span of maritime tasks', Marine Policy, 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105481

Journal articles | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'Unsinkable Ships?', Australian Army Journal, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.61451/225856

Journal articles | 2022

Dunley R, 2022, 'Operation Q: Churchill and Fisher's Invasion of Germany, 1915?', Journal of Military History (US), 86, pp. 612 - 641

Journal articles | 2022

Dunley R, 2022, 'Rebuilding the Mills of Sea Power: Interwar British Planning for Economic Warfare against Japan', International History Review, 44, pp. 1091 - 1107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2021.1989704

Journal articles | 2021

Dunley R; Pugh J, 2021, 'Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives', Twentieth Century British History, 32, pp. 581 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwab021

Journal articles | 2020

Dunley R, 2020, 'The Archive of the Edwardian Foreign Office: The Archaeology of a Collection and Its Use', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 31, pp. 429 - 449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2020.1782672

Journal articles | 2019

Dunley R, 2019, 'Anti-Submarine Warfare in the Pre-First World War Royal Navy: A Cultural Failure?', War in History, 27, pp. 617 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344518797150

Journal articles | 2017

Dunley R, 2017, 'Invasion, raids and army reform: the political context of ‘flotilla defence’, 1903–5', Historical Research, 90, pp. 613 - 635, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12188

Journal articles | 2016

Dunley RE, 2016, 'Technology and Tradition: Mine Warfare and the Royal Navy’s Strategy of Coastal Assault 1870-1890', Journal of Military History, 80, pp. 389 - 409

Journal articles | 2015

Dunley R, 2015, ''The warrior has always shewed himself greater than his weapons': The Royal Navy's interpretation of the Russo- Japanese War 1904-5', War and Society, 34, pp. 248 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2015.1128655

Journal articles | 2015

Dunley R, 2015, 'Sir John Fisher and the Policy of Strategic Deterrence, 1904–1908', War in History, 22, pp. 155 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344514521126

Journal articles | 2015

Dunley RE, 2015, '"Not intended to act as spies”: The Consular Intelligence Service in Denmark and Germany 1906-1914', International History Review, 37, pp. 481 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2014.942677
Creative Written Works | 2025

Dunley R; Booth M; Moss T, 2025, Only a third of Australians support increasing defence spending: new research, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/only-a-third-of-australians-support-increasing-defence-spending-new-research-253943

Reports | 2025

Dunley R; Moss T; Townsend N; Booth M; Crawley R; Hutchinson M; Richardson T, 2025, Public Attitudes Towards the Australian Defence Force Iterim Report, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/unsw-canberra/hass/Public%20Attitudes%20Towards%20the%20Australian%20Defence%20Force%20Survey%20Interim%20Report%20v3.pdf

Reports | 2025

Dunley R; Moss T; Townsend N; Booth M; Crawley R; Hutchison M; Richardson T, 2025, Public Attitudes towards the Australian Defence Force: Final Report, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/unsw-canberra/hass/Public%20Attitudes%20Towards%20the%20ADF%20Report%20-V3.pdf

Reports | 2025

Townsend N; Moss T; Booth M; Richardson T; Hutchison M; Stahel D; Crawley R; Dunley R, 2025, Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History

Reports | 2024

Dunley R; Buchanan E, 2024, Is Australia’s AUKUS submarine pathway really ‘optimal’?, https://www.ussc.edu.au/is-australias-aukus-submarine-pathway-really-optimal

Media | 2025

Dunley R; Booth M; Moss T, 2025, Only a third of Australians support increasing defence spending: new research, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/only-a-third-of-australians-support-increasing-defence-spending-new-research-253943

Media | 2025

Dunley R, 2025, Australian defence and the nebulous “archipelago”, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australian-defence-nebulous-archipelago

Media | 2025

Dunley R, 2025, Political fighting over Chinese warships misses the point: Australia’s navy is no match for China’s built‑up force, https://theconversation.com/political-fighting-over-chinese-warships-misses-the-point-australias-navy-is-no-match-for-chinas-built-up-force-251039

Media | 2025

Dunley R, 2025, Undersea cable control: The information dimension, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/undersea-cable-control-information-dimension

Media | 2025

Dunley R, 2025, ‘Deterrence’—an agreeable word that obscures strategic debate, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/deterrence-an-agreeable-word-that-obscures-strategic-debate/

Media | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, After ambition, implementation: How Australia builds its new navy, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/after-ambition-implementation-how-australia-builds-its-new-navy

Media | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, Control of the sea is worth gambling on AUKUS, https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/control-of-the-sea-is-worth-gambling-on-aukus-20240708-p5jrtg

Media | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, Rethinking Australia’s wartime maritime trade, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/rethinking-australias-wartime-maritime-trade/

Media | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, Ukraine-style naval attack drones present challenges, but they are not revolutionary, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ukraine-style-naval-attack-drones-present-challenges-but-they-are-not-revolutionary/

Media | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, AUKUS focus carries risks for other areas of Australian security, https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/aukus-focus-carries-risks-for-other-areas-of-australian-security

Media | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, Australia needs to resource a merchant fleet, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-needs-resource-merchant-fleet

Media | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, Report from 1945 holds lessons for defence strategic review team, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/report-from-1945-holds-lessons-for-defence-strategic-review-team/

Media | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, Weighing the risks in naval ship procurement, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/weighing-the-risks-in-naval-ship-procurement/

Media | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, What exactly is Australia’s strategy of denial meant to do?, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-exactly-is-australias-strategy-of-denial-meant-to-do/

Media | 2022

Dunley R, 2022, Nuclear-powered submarines will change the identity of the RAN, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/nuclear-powered-submarines-will-change-the-identity-of-the-ran/

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