By Dr Tristan Moss

Books

Moss TE, 2017, Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, CUP, Cambridge, U.K.

Book Chapters

Moss T, 2023, 'History and Australia's Space Policy', in The Foundations of Australia's Space Policy, Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane, pp. 5 - 13

Moss T, 2021, 'Defending Australia’s land border: the Australian military in Papua New Guinea', in Fighting Australia’s Cold War: The nexus of strategy and operations in a multipolar Asia, 1945 – 1965, pp. 157 - 172, https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n9414/pdf/ch08.pdf

Moss T, 2021, 'Planning for war in Southeast Asia: the Far East Strategic Reserve, 1955 - 66', in Moss T; Dean P (ed.), Fighting Australia’s Cold War: The nexus of strategy and operations in a multipolar Asia, 1945 – 1965, pp. 95 - 114, https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n9414/pdf/ch05.pdf

Moss T; Hearder R, 2019, 'Australian Peacekeepers and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder', in Bou J; Breen B; Horner D; Pratten G (ed.), The Limits of Peacekeeping: Australian peacekeeping in internal conflicts, 1993 – 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 578 - 606

Moss T; Richardson T, 2018, 'History and the military’s other tasks', in Moss T; Richardson T (ed.), Beyond Combat: the Australian military experience off the battlefield, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 1 - 9, https://www.booktopia.com.au/beyond-combat-tristan-moss/prod9781742235905.html

Beaumont J; Moss T, 2018, 'Australian military forces in the Second World War', in Beaumont J; Cadzow A (ed.), Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship, NewSouth, Sydney, pp. 135 - 154

Moss T, 2018, 'Chalkies and civics: teaching the military in Papua New Guinea, 1966 – 1972', in Moss T; Richardson T (ed.), Beyond Combat: Australian military activity away from the battlefield, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 60 - 71

Dean P; Moss T, 2018, 'War and Society in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania', in Ulbrich D; Muehlbauer M (ed.), The Routledge History of Global War and History, Routledge, pp. 32 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315725192

Moss T, 2017, 'Postwar Planner: Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Brogan, 1915 – 1994', in Shadow Men: the forgotten legacies that shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, NewSouth, Sydney, pp. 211 - 211

Moss TE; Fitzpatrick G, 2016, 'Crimes against Captured Airmen', in Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945-51, BRILL

Edited Books

Moss T, (ed.), 2023, The Foundations of Australia's Space Policy, Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane, https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0032/1728617/The-foundations-of-Australias-space-policy-web.pdf

Moss T; Dean P, (ed.), 2021, Fighting Australia’s Cold War: The nexus of strategy and operations in a multipolar Asia, 1945 – 1965, ANU Press, Canberra, https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/fighting-australias-cold-war

Moss T; Richardson T, (ed.), 2018, Beyond Combat: the Australian military experience off the battlefields, UNSW Press, Sydney

Journal articles

Moss T, 2024, '“Consider Carefully the Best Use of Our Limited Resources”: Australian Space Policy, 1960–72', Australian Journal of Politics & History, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12995

Moss T, 2022, '‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’ soldiers: Race and Papua New Guinean soldiers in the Australian Army, 1940–60', War in History, 29, pp. 467 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09683445211000375

Moss T, 2020, '‘There Are Many Other Things More Important to Us Than Space Research’: The Australian Government and the Dawn of the Space Age, 1956–62', Australian Historical Studies, 51, pp. 442 - 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2020.1766522

Moss T, 2020, 'Brogan, Sir Mervyn Francis (1915–1994)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brogan-sir-mervyn-francis-28329

Moss T, 2018, '‘Talking Itself Out of a Political Future’: Education and Australian Army Engagement with Papua New Guinean Independence, 1966–72', The Journal of Pacific History, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2018.1548268

Reports

Moss T; Robison Hasani K; Deejay A, 2023, Looking Up from Down Under: Australian attitudes to national space activities, Australian Centre for Space Governance, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28684, https://www.spacegovcentre.org/_files/ugd/ff2a5a_76d6c587c5444703acc72faffa81c492.pdf

Moss T, 2023, The space between alliance and self-reliance: The evolution of the Australia-US defence space relationship, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28683, https://www.ussc.edu.au/the-evolution-of-the-australia-us-defence-space-relationship

Working Papers

Moss T, 2021, Unifying Space: Australia Needs a Whole of Government Space Policy, UWA Defence and Security Institute, http://dx.doi.org, https://defenceuwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Black-Swan-Strategy-Paper-Issue02_Unifying-Space.pdf

Media

Moss T; Steer C; Robison Hasani K; Deejay A, 2023, The first-ever survey on Australian attitudes towards space is out. So, what do we think?, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-first-ever-survey-on-australian-attitudes-towards-space-is-out-so-what-do-we-think-219813

Moss T, 2018, 50 years ago: Australia and the Apollo 8 mission that sent a Christmas message from the Moon, https://theconversation.com/50-years-ago-australia-and-the-apollo-8-mission-that-sent-a-christmas-message-from-the-moon-104391

Other

Moss T, 2021, It’s not rocket science, Australia needs a stronger space strategy’, Lowy Interpreter, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/it-s-not-rocket-science-australia-needs-stronger-space-strategy

Moss T, 2014, Defending Whose Country? Indigenous soldiers in the Pacific War, Informa UK Limited, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2014.950850

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