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Dr Andrew Maher is a former Australian military officer with a particular interest in operations conducted by, with and through foreign forces, as a result of operational experience in Afghanistan and Iraq. My research focus has been towards Irregular Warfare, the conduct of competition that leverages non-state actors, which was the anchor for my PhD: The Strategic Logic of Proxy Warfare. I have been a post-graduate course convenor at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra for subjects on Irregular Warfare and the Theory of Special Operations for over five years.Ìý

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Book Chapters:

• ‘Special Operations Developments in the Pacific: Back to the Future?’, Into the Void: Special Operations Beyond the Global War on Terror, Martijn Kitzen and James Kiras (eds.), Hurst, Jun 2024.
• ‘Strategic Planners’, The Long Road: The Long Road: Australia’s Train, Advise and Assist Missions, Tom Frame (ed.), 91É«ÇéƬ Press, 2017.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• ‘Operational Analysis: Operation OKRA 2014-24, Australian Army Research Centre, 2025 (14 November 2025), available at: . Ìý

• Unconventional Deterrence in Australian Strategy, with Sally Burt, Ian Langford, and David Kilcullen, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (October 2025), available at: . Ìý

• ‘Proxy War in Yemen: An Enduring Strategic Challenge’, Australian Army Journal, 21:2 (August 2025), available at: . Ìý

• ‘A Plan B: An Australian Support to Resistance Operating Concept’, Australian Army Journal, 20:2 (2024), available at: .

• ‘Resistance Strategy: Lessons from the Russo-Ukraine conflict for Europe, Australia and the Indo-Pacific,’ Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, 5:1, (2023), available at: .

• ‘Information-Age Proxy Warfare,’ Joint Special Operations University, (Aug 2019), available at: .

• ‘Understanding our Middle-Eastern competitor: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force,’ Australian Army Journal, 16:1, (Jun 2018), available at: .

• ‘An Australian doctrinal concept for Special Warfare: Lessons and Considerations,’ Directorate of Future Land Warfare, (Sep 2016), available at: .

• Ìý‘Strategic Planners: A response to operational complexity’, Australian Army Journal, Ìý(Autumn 2016), available at: .

• Ìý‘Counter-Network Operations: insights into the application of complexity theory’, Australian Defence Force Journal, 198, (Nov 2015), available at: .

• ‘Regional SOF capacity building: An asymmetric Australian maritime strategy’, Australian Army Journal, (Oct 2015), available at: .

• ‘CAS instruction at SFTC’, Australian Defence Force Journal, 193, (Apr 2014), available at: .

Exemplar Blog Posts / Commentary:

• 'The anniversary of war in Ukraine – 10 years, not two years’, The Strategist (7 February 2024), available at:
• ‘Wither Political Warfare: The Future of Grey Zone Competition,’ Irregular Warfare Initiative, (22 September 2023), available at: .
• Land Power Forum, ‘When Australia went to War in China,’ (25 July 2023), available at: .
• ASPI Strategist, ‘A ‘Plan B’ for the ADF: Supporting Resistance as a Strategy,’ (21 July 2023), at: .
• Irregular Warfare Initiative, ‘History Rhymes: Lessons from Indo-Pacific Competition and Confrontation in the Grey Zone,’ 18 May 2023, available at: .
• Modern War Institute, Guerrillas, Revolutionaries, Insurgents, and Militias and Mafiosi: The GRIM Threats of Irregular Strategy, 24 February 2022, available at: .

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