My Long War: Leadership and Lessons from a Quarter Century of Coalition Warfare

Six deployments. Twenty-six years. A soldier’s account of Australia’s long wars.
For more than a quarter of a century, Major General Roger Noble stood at the centre of Australia’s contribution to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor. His career spans the evolution of Coalition warfare from the immediate aftermath of the Cold War to the brutal fight against ISIS.
As a 26-year-old captain, he helped destroy chemical weapons inside Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Decades later, he served as Deput...