Select Publications
Books
2022, Born of Fire and Ash Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000
,2020, Letters from the Veldt The Imperial Advance to Pretoria Through the Eyes of Edward Hutton and His Brigade of Colonials
,2015, Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late-Victorian Imperial Defence
,2013, Swastika over the Acropolis, BRILL
,2013, Before the Anzac Dawn, University of New South Wales Press Ltd., Sydney Australia
,2013, Swastika Over the Acropolis Re-interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War Two, Brill Academic Pub
,2012, Anzac's Dirty Dozen, stockings, c , (ed.), UNSW Press, Sydney
,, 2010, Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, Stockings CA, (ed.), UNSW Press, Sydney Australia
2010, Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, stockings, c , (ed.), UNSW Press
,2009, Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac, UNSW Press, Sydney
,2007, The Making and Breaking of the Post-Federation Australian Army, 1901-09, Land Warfare Centre, Canberra
,2007, The Torch and the Sword, UNW Press, Sydney
,2006, The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
,2000, Paratroopers as Peacekeepers - 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment East Timor 1999-2000, Sydney
,Book Chapters
2020, 'The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor', in Niche Wars Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001–2014, ANU Press, pp. 313 - 323
,2020, 'The Enduring Impact', in Frame T (ed.), INTERFET Lessons and Legacies from East Timor 20 Years on, pp. 132 - 150
,2018, 'An organisation structured for peace: the command, control and planning difficulties of Operations Warden/Stabilise, East Timor, 1999', in The Skill of Adaptability: the learning curve in combat, Big Sky Publishing, Canberra, pp. 220 - 234
,2018, 'Official but not history, history but not official', in Jeff Grey A Life in History, pp. 30 - 44
,2017, 'A continuing tradition…but a whole new ballgame: the Official Historian of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor', in Stanley P (ed.), Charles Bean Man, Myth, Legacy, pp. 215 - 228
,2017, 'The First Commander: Lieutenant Sir Edward 'Curley' Hutton', in The Shadow Men: The Leaders Who Shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 9 - 36
,2017, ''A continuing tradition...but a whole new ballgame: the Official Historian of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor'', in Charles Bean: Man, Myth and Legacy, UNSW Press Sydney, Sydney
,2016, 'On the outside looking in: reflections of the INTERFET deployment 1999-2000', in On Ops: Lessons and Challenges for the Australian Army since East Timor, UNSW Press
,2013, 'British soldiers in colonial Australia', in Stockings C; Connor J (ed.), Before the ANZAC Dawn, NewSouth, Sydney, pp. 39 - 61
,2013, 'British soldiers in in colonial Australia', in Stockings C; Connor J (ed.), Before the Anzac Dawn: a Military History of Australia to 1915, pp. 39 - 61
,2013, 'Australia's Boy Soldiers: The Army Cadet Movement', in Stockings C; Connor J (ed.), Before the Anzac Dawn, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 174 - 208
,2013, 'The capture of German New Guinea', in Connor J; Stockings C (ed.), Before the Anzac Dawn: A military history of Australia to 1915, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 283 - 303, http://newsouthpublishing.com/
,2012, '"They also served": Exaggerating women's role in Australia's wars', in Stockings C (ed.), Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 100 - 111
,2012, '‘‘Landmark’ battles and the myths of Vietnam’', in Stockings (ed.), Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: Twelve myths and misconceptions of Australian military history, Sydney
,2012, 'Introduction: Myths and Australian Military History', in Stockings C (ed.), Anzacs Dirty Dozen, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 1 - 11
,2012, 'Other People's Wars', in Stockings C (ed.), Anzacs Dirty Dozen, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 73 - 100
,2010, 'Dramatic myth, dull truth: invasion by japan in 1942', in Stockings C (ed.), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, NewSouth
,2010, 'An Abundance of Riches: Training and Sustaining the Second AIF in the First Libyan Campaign, North Africa, 1940-41', in Raise, Train and Sustain, Australian Military History Publications (AMHP), Sydney, pp. 93 - 107
,2010, 'The Diggers were born Soldiers', in , pp. 93 - 115
,2010, 'There is an idea the Australian is a natural born soldier', in Stockings C (ed.), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, UNSW Press, Sydney Australia, pp. 93 - 115
,2008, 'A Kangaroo Slain by a Talisman Saber – We’ve Come a Long Way in a Few Short Years…', in Duty First: 60 Years of the Royal Australian Regiment, Faircount Media Group, Sydney
,2008, 'The Difficult Years, 1980-2000', in Duty First: 60 Years of the Royal Australian Regiment, Faircount Media Group, Sydney
,2008, 'The Formation of the Royal Australian Regiment', in Duty First: 60 Years of the Royal Australian Regiment, Faircount Media Group, Sydney
,2008, 'Upheaval, Uncertainty and Opportunity: UN Operations and Australia, 1990-99', in Horner D; Bou J (ed.), Duty First: A History of the Royal Australian Regiment, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 281 - 305
,Edited Books
Stockings C, (ed.), 2021, An Army of Influence: eighty years of regional engagement, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009086929
Stockings C, (ed.), 2017, The Shadow Men: the leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, UNSW Press, Sydney
Journal articles
2016, 'Ever kind of Machiavellian plot: Curley Hutton and Canada's march to a war in South Africa', Canadian Army Journal, 16, No. 2, pp. 31 - 53
,2016, 'The weary Titan staggers under the too vast orb of its fate: Post-Federation Australia and the problem of Imperiall Defence', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2016, 44, No. 6, pp. 900 - 927
,2015, '‘“A Trojan Horse” in the Colony? Federal and imperial defence in the Australian Colonies, 1893-96’', Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 17, pp. 159 - 184, http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=430146271911278;res=IELHSS
,2015, '‘“There is nothing new under the sun”: An early Australian coalition operation, South Africa, 1900’', Australian Defence Force Journal: journal of the Australian profession of arms, pp. 27 - 38
,2015, '‘Rethinking Allied relationships during the Greek Campaign, April 1941’, , Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 6-32.', Global War Studies, 11, pp. 6 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.5893/19498489.11.03.01
,2014, 'The Minefield of Australian Military History', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60, pp. 580 - 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12077
,2014, 'The invasion of Greece in 1941 and the Nazi hordes that never were...', Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 16-17, pp. 147 - 164
,2013, ''Somthing is wrong with our army ...': Command, Leadership and Italian Military Failure in the First Libyan Campaign, 1940-41', Defence Studies, pp. 125 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2013.808103
,2013, 'Australia from the Colonial Era to the Present', Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199791279-0107
,2013, 'Other People's Wars', The Sydney Papers Online, 19
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