Dr Andrew Ross is a former Operations Research analyst at Central Studies Establishment, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australian Department of Defence. He is also a military historian. He is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales Canberra. Andrew Ross developed the 1ATF Contact Database and the Phuoc Tuy Incident Database which drive the battle map on this website. He is also the author of numerous books, monographs and journal articles including Armed and Ready: The Industrial Development and Defence of Australia 1900-1945 and, with Bob Hall, ‘Lessons From Vietnam – Combined Arms Assault Against Prepared Defences’, in Michael Evans and Alan Ryan (eds.), From Breitenfeld to Baghdad: Perspectives on Combined Arms Warfare.

Publications

  • Andrew Ross and J M Sandison, ‘A Historical Appreciation of Naval Air Power’, Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs No 26, published by The Sea Power Centre Australia, RAN.
  • Andrew Ross (Ed), ‘The Military Significance of the Gulf War’, Australian Defence Studies Centre, UNSW, ADFA, 1991.
  • Andrew Ross, ‘Australian Overseas Trade and National Development Policy 1932-1939’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol 36, No 2, 1990.
  • Andrew Ross, Armed and Ready: The Industrial Development and Defence of Australia 1900-1945; Department of Industry, Science and Technology, and Turton and Armstrong, Sydney 1995.
  • Andrew Ross, ‘The Rise of Australian Defence Industry and Science 1901-1945’, in Arming the Nation edited by Frank Cain, Australian Defence Studies Centre, UNSW, ADFA, 1999
  • Robert A. Hall and Andrew Ross, ‘Lessons From Vietnam – Combined Arms Assault Against Prepared Defences’, in Michael Evans and Alan Ryan (eds.), From Breitenfeld to Baghdad: Perspectives on Combined Arms Warfare, Land Warfare Studies Centre, working paper no. 122, July 2003, pp. 27-52.
  • Robert A. Hall and Andrew Ross, ‘Bang on Target: Infantry marksmanship and combat effectiveness in Vietnam’, Australian Army Journal, vol. vi, no. 1, 2009, pp. 139-156.
  • Robert A. Hall and Andrew Ross, ‘The political and military effectiveness of Commonwealth forces in Confrontation 1963-1966’, Small Wars & Insurgencies, London, Routledge, 2008 vol 19, iss. 2, pp. 238-255.
  • Robert A. Hall and Andrew Ross, ‘Australia’s Land Operations in Vietnam: Understanding Low Level Operations in the Regional Littoral’, in V. Puri, D. Filippidis, P. Retter and J. Kelly (eds.), Weapons, Webs and Warfighters, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Adelaide, 2003, pp. 149-158.
  • Robert Hall and Andrew Ross, ‘Kinetics in counterinsurgency: some influences on soldier combat performance in the 1st Australian Task Force in the Vietnam War’, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol 21, No 3, Sept 2010, pg498-518.