Dr Robert Hall

Dr Robert Hall

Honorary Lecturer
UNSW Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

After a career in the Australian Regular Army, in 1991 I joined the staff of the UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy as the Executive Director of the Australian Defence Studies Centre. From 2006 to 2010 I was a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences where I completed an ARC funded research project examining the combat effectiveness of Australian forces in the Vietnam War. Since 2010 I have been an adjunct lecturer where I work on the analysis of combat operations, building the 'Australia's Vietnam War' website and on Operation Wandering Souls. The latter is a project aimed at assisting Vietnam with discovering the burial sites of Vietnamese soldiers killed in action by Australian and New Zealand forces during the Vietnam War. It also aims to return documents and artefacts of a personal nature that were recovered from the battlefield by Austrlaian and New Zealand soldiers.

Phone
+61 2 5114 5091
Location
Building 13 Room 2-24
  • Books | 2015
    Ross A; Hall R; Griffin A, 2015, The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam An Analysis of Australian Task Force Combat Operations, Cambridge University Press
    Books | 2015
    Ross A; Ross PCOIPAPA; Hall B; Griffin A, 2015, The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam An analysis of Australian Task Force combat operations, Cambridge University Press
    Books | 2015
    Ross AT; Hall R; Griffin AL, 2015, The Search For Tactical Success in Vietnam, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne
    Books | 2000
    Hall RA, 2000, Combat Battalion The Eighth Battalion in Vietnam, Allen & Unwin
    Books | 1997
    Cheeseman GL; Hall RA, 1997, Preparing for Australia`s Military After Next: The Price Report and a `New Model` Australian Defence Force Academy, Original, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra
    Books | 1997
    Hall RA, 1997, The Black Diggers Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War, Aboriginal Studies Press
    Books | 1995
    Hall R, 1995, Fighters from the Fringe: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Recall the Second World War, Original, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Hall R, 2020, 'A Long Bridge in Time: The 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam via Malaya and Borneo', in Glenn R (ed.), Trust and Leadership: The Australian Army Approach to Mission Command, University of North Georgia Press, Dohlonega, Georgia, USA, pp. 127 - 155
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Hall RA, 2017, '‘Vietnam: Insights Gained, Lessons Lost’', in Frame T (ed.), The Long Road,, Sydney
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Hall RA; Andrew Ross , 2012, '‘‘Landmark’ battles and the myths of Vietnam’', in Stockings (ed.), Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: Twelve myths and misconceptions of Australian military history, Sydney
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Hall R; Ross A, 2003, 'Lessons From Vietnam – Combined Arms Assault Against Prepared Defences', in Evans M; Ryan A (ed.), From Breitenfeld to Baghdad: Perspectives on Combined Arms Warfare, Land Warfare Studies Centre, Canberra
    Book Chapters | 1991
    Hall R, 1991, 'Aborigines and Australian Defence Planning', in Ball D (ed.), Aborigines in the Defence of Australia, Australian National University Press, Botany, pp. 205 - 221
    Book Chapters | 1991
    Hall R, 1991, 'Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War', in Ball D (ed.), Aborigines in the Defence of Australia, Australian National University Press, Botany, pp. 32 - 63
  • Journal articles | 2020
    Hall B, 2020, 'Danger Close: battle without context', History Australia, 17, pp. 195 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2020.1717355
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hall RA, 2018, '‘Fifty Years Since the Tet Offensive’', Australian Outlook
    Journal articles | 2018
    Ross A; Hall B, 2018, 'Shots per casualty: An indicator of combat efficiency for the first australian task force in south Vietnam', Defense and Security Analysis, 34, pp. 410 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2018.1529080
    Journal articles | 2014
    Griffin AL; Hall B; Ross AT, 2014, 'The Australian counterinsurgency campaign in the Vietnam war: the ambush battle', Journal of Maps, 10, pp. 61 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2013.870095
    Journal articles | 2011
    Hall R, 2011, 'Aborigines, the Army and the Second World War in northern Australia', Aboriginal History Journal, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ah.04.2011.05
    Journal articles | 2011
    Hall R, 2011, 'Operation Wandering Souls’: Australians are helping Vietnam locate some of its thousands of missing in action', Wartime
    Journal articles | 2010
    Hall RA; Ross A, 2010, 'Kinetics in counterinsurgency: some influences on soldier combat performance in the 1st Australian Task Force in the Vietnam War', Small Wars and Insurgencies, 21, pp. 498 - 518
    Journal articles | 2009
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2009, 'Bang on Target: Infantry marksmanship and combat effectiveness in Vietnam', Australian Army Journal, vi
    Journal articles | 2008
    Hall RA; Ross A, 2008, 'The political and military effectiveness of Commonwealth Forces in Confrontation 1963-66.', Small Wars and Insurgencies, 19, pp. 238 - 255
    Journal articles | 2001
    Hall R, 2001, 'Accidental Discharges – The Soldier’s Industrial Accident in Vietnam and East Timor', Australian Defence Force Journal
    Journal articles | 1992
    Hall R, 1992, 'Black Magic: Leonard Waters – Second World War fighter pilot', Aboriginal History, 16
    Journal articles | 1992
    Hall R, 1992, 'Finding the Black parts of the Digger Legend: A guide to archival sources on the Aboriginal and Islander contribution', Aboriginal History, 16
    Journal articles | 1990
    Hall R, 1990, 'An Invitation to National Disunity’: Chinese Support for Australia’s War Effort in the Second World War and the White Australian Response', War and Society, 8
    Journal articles | 1990
    Hall R, 1990, 'Black Australians in the Second World War', Revue Internationale d’Histoire Militaire
    Journal articles | 1989
    Journal articles | 1980
    Hall R, 1980, 'Aborigines and the Army', Australian Defence Force Journal
  • Working Papers | 2010
    Hall RA; Ross A, 2010, Case Study: Confronting moral dilemmas in combat: Vietnam 1966-1971, Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics, Australian Defence College, Weston, Canberra, Canberra ACT, 1/2010, http://dx.doi.org
  • Other | 2018
    Hall RA, 2018, ‘More about Tet ’68 in Baria’, Australia's Vietnam War website, , https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/more-about-tet-68-in-baria/
    Other | 2018
    Hall RA, 2018, ‘Tet ’68 in Phuoc Tuy: Impact on communities’, Australia's Vietnam War website, , https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/tet-68-in-phuoc-tuy-impact-on-communities/
    Other | 2017
    Hall RA, 2017, ‘50th Anniversary: South Vietnam’s 1967 Presidential election’, 'Australia's Vietnam War' website, , https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/50th-anniversary-south-vietnams-1967-presidential-election/
    Other | 2016
    Hall RA; Andrew Ross , 2016, ‘Keeping the Troops in the Field Part 1: Rations’, , https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/keeping-the-troops-in-the-field-part-1-rations/
    Other | 2016
    Hall RA; Andrew Ross , 2016, ‘Keeping the Troops in the Field Part 2: Water Resupply’, , https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/keeping-the-troops-in-the-field-part-2-water-resupply/
    Other | 2015
    Hall RA; Andrew Ross , 2015, ‘Contact! Wait, Out’: Battle procedure after contact’, 'Australia's Vietnam War' website, , https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/contact-wait-out-battle-procedure-after-contact/
    Other | 2015
    Hall RA; Ross AT; De Heer D; Griffin A; Kimberley P; Smith B; Turner T; Doyle J, 2015, 'Australia's Vietnam War' website, , https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/
    Reports | 2012
    Hall RA; Ross AT; De Heer D, 2012, Comparative Study: Combat operations in North Borneo (Indonesian Confrontation) and 1ATF in Vietnam.
    Other | 2010
    Hall RA; Ross AT; De Heer D; Griffin A, 2010, Operation Wandering Souls,
    Reports | 2008
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2008, Study of the structures, arms and approaches to the employment of fires of the Australian rifle section in South Vietnam, 1966-1971
    Reports | 2006
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2006, Historical soldier load carrying
    Reports | 2006
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2006, The effectiveness of combined arms teams in urban terrain: The battle of Binh Ba, Vietnam 1969, and the battles of Fallujah, Iraq, 2004.
    Reports | 2004
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2004, Indirect fire support for the Australian Army in Vietnam, 1965-1971
    Reports | 2003
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2003, Ambush and attack incidents involving the Australian Army in Vietnam
    Reports | 2003
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2003, Analysis of Australian urban engagements in Vietnam
    Reports | 2002
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2002, Attacks on prepared defended positions by units of 1st ATF, 1966-1971
    Reports | 2002
    Hall RA; Ross AT, 2002, Friendly fire in low level warfare: The experience of the First Australian Task Force in Vietnam, 1966-1971.
    Reports | 1985
    Hall R, 1985, Report: Employment of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders by the Defence Force During the Second World War, Canberra