The Education of Military Officers in Military History

How has the education of officers evolved throughout our history? Good leaders are crucial to a good defence force.

Join us for a talk by Dr Mesut Uyar, Visiting Professor, UNSW, on The Education of Military Officers in History.

Dr Mesut Uyar is a Turkish-Australian military historian. A graduate of the Turkish Military Academy, he has an MA on politics and PhD on international relations from the Faculty of Political Sciences Istanbul University. He specialises in military history and war studies, particularly late Ottoman and modern Turkish military history. As a career officer he served as platoon, company and battalion commander in various Turkish infantry units and several tours of peace support operations duties, as military observer at UN mission in Georgia, and as staff officer in Afghanistan. He was wounded twice in action. He worked as a scholar in various universities and higher education institutions including Turkish Military Academy, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Antalya Bilim University and the Peace Support Training Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently the University of New South Wales' Ottoman Fellow, Associate Professor.

He is the author of The Ottoman Army and the First World War (2021); The Phaseline Attila: The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus, 1974 (2020); The Ottoman Defence Against the Anzac Landing 25 April 1915 (2015): A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Atatürk (2009); and numerous articles and book chapters.   

Book and pay online by the Friday before the event or pay at the door.

Adult: $15.00

RUSI NSW Member: Free

Military serving personnel in Uniform: Free

Sandwiches: $10.00

Be informed: Ursula Davidson Library provides an unparalleled collection of military resources, see UDL Military Education Reading List and other UDL reading lists