12 Facts About David Horner

David Horner was a prefect and served on numerous committees including the yearbook, debating, cadets, and student christian movement.

In 1971, David Horner served an eight-month tour in Vietnam as a platoon commander in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.

David Horner was a visiting fellow with the Department of History at the Australian Defence Force Academy from 1985 to 1988, and a member of the directing staff at the Joint Services Staff College in 1988 to 1990.

David Horner retired from the full-time army in 1991 on gaining a position with the Australian National University and transferred to the Australian Army Reserve, with which he served for more than a decade.

David Horner was the inaugural commanding officer of the Land Warfare Studies Centre, and retired with the rank of colonel.

David Horner has a Diploma of Military Studies from Duntroon, a Master of Arts from the University of New South Wales, and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy from the ANU in 1980.

David Horner was appointed to a position at the ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in 1990.

In 2004 David Horner was appointed the Official Historian and general editor for the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations, a six-volume history covering Australia's involvement in international peacekeeping operations from 1947 to 2006.

David Horner authored or co-authored the second and third volumes: Australia and the 'New World Order' and, with John Connor, The Good International Citizen.

David Horner undertook a feasibility study in 2012 into what eventually became the Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor.

David Horner has written or edited 32 books and more than 75 journal articles, reports and chapters in books.

David Horner was made a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2015.