Dr Andrew Maher is a former Australian military officer with a particular interest in operations conducted by, with and through foreign forces, as a result of operational experience in Afghanistan and Iraq. My research focus has been towards Irregular Warfare, the conduct of competition that leverages non-state actors, which was the anchor for my PhD: The Strategic Logic of Proxy Warfare. I have been a post-graduate course convenor at UNSW Canberra for subjects on Irregular Warfare and the Theory of Special Operations for over five years. 

Book Chapters:

• ‘Special Operations Developments in the Pacific: Back to the Future?’, Into the Void: Special Operations Beyond the Global War on Terror, Martijn Kitzen and James Kiras (eds.), Hurst, Jun 2024.
• ‘Strategic Planners’, The Long Road: The Long Road: Australia’s Train, Advise and Assist Missions, Tom Frame (ed.), UNSW Press, 2017.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• ‘Resistance Strategy: Lessons from the Russo-Ukraine conflict for Europe, Australia and the Indo-Pacific,’ Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, 5:1, (2023), available at: https://www.defence.gov.au/research-innovation/research-publications/australian-journal-defence-and-strategic-studies-vol-5-number-1.
• ‘Information-Age Proxy Warfare,’ Joint Special Operations University, (Aug 2019), available at: https://jsou.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=49819511.
• ‘Understanding our Middle-Eastern competitor: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force,’ Australian Army Journal, 16:1, (Jun 2018), available at: https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/aaj_autumn_2018_vol_xiv_no_1.pdf.
• ‘An Australian doctrinal concept for Special Warfare: Lessons and Considerations,’ Directorate of Future Land Warfare, (Sep 2016), available at: https://www.army.gov.au/our-future/australian-army-research-centre/australian-army-research-centre-publications/army-18.
•  ‘Strategic Planners: A response to operational complexity’, Australian Army Journal,  (Autumn 2016), available at: https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/aaj_2016_1.pdf.
•  ‘Counter-Network Operations: insights into the application of complexity theory’, Australian Defence Force Journal, 198, (Nov 2015), available at: www.defence.gov.au/adc/adfj/Documents/issue_198/Maher_Nov_2015.pdf.
• ‘Regional SOF capacity building: An asymmetric Australian maritime strategy’, Australian Army Journal, (Oct 2015), available at: https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/aaj_2015_1.pdf.
• ‘CAS instruction at SFTC’, Australian Defence Force Journal, 193, (Apr 2014), available at: www.defence.gov.au/adc/adfj/Documents/issue_193/193_2014_Mar_Apr.pdf.

Exemplar Blog Posts / Commentary:

• 'The anniversary of war in Ukraine – 10 years, not two years’, The Strategist (7 February 2024), available at: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-anniversary-of-war-in-ukraine-10-years-not-two-years/
• ‘Wither Political Warfare: The Future of Grey Zone Competition,’ Irregular Warfare Initiative, (22 September 2023), available at: https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/wither-political-warfare-the-future-of-grey-zone-competition/.
• Land Power Forum, ‘When Australia went to War in China,’ (25 July 2023), available at: https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/land-power-forum/when-australian-went-war-china.
• ASPI Strategist, ‘A ‘Plan B’ for the ADF: Supporting Resistance as a Strategy,’ (21 July 2023), at: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/a-plan-b-for-the-adf-supporting-resistance-as-a-strategy/.
• Irregular Warfare Initiative, ‘History Rhymes: Lessons from Indo-Pacific Competition and Confrontation in the Grey Zone,’ 18 May 2023, available at: https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/history-rhymes-lessons-from-indo-pacific-competition-and-confrontation-in-the-gray-zone/.
• Modern War Institute, Guerrillas, Revolutionaries, Insurgents, and Militias and Mafiosi: The GRIM Threats of Irregular Strategy, 24 February 2022, available at: https://mwi.usma.edu/guerrillas-revolutionaries-insurgents-and-militias-and-mafiosi-the-grim-threats-of-irregular-strategy/.