Thomas Evan Richardson

Dr. Thomas Evan Richardson is a Researcher at UNSW Canberra, specializing in Australian military history and counterinsurgency, particularly in Southeast Asia post-1945. He holds a BA (Hons) from Monash University (2009) and a PhD from UNSW Canberra (2014). His doctoral work focused on pacification in Phuoc Tuy Province during the Vietnam War. He has taught as a tutor and lecturer at UNSW Canberra (2015-2016) and contributed to projects on Australian peacekeeping and operations in East Timor, Iraq, and Afghanistan. His research interests include the intersection of Australian military history and counterinsurgency tactics.

Publications include his book *Destroy and Build: Pacification in Phuoc Tuy, 1966–1972* (Cambridge, 2017), co-edited volumes like *New Directions in War and History* (2016) and *Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity Away From the Battlefield* (2018). His current project is an operational history of Australia in the Second Anglo-Boer War.

Dr. Richardson supervises research in Australian military history, Asia-Pacific military history, counterinsurgency, and limited wars. He is affiliated with UNSW's research programs and has collaborated on official military history projects.