Craig Stockings is currently working as the Official Historian of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor of history at UNSW Canberra. His areas of academic interest concern general and Australian military history and operational analysis. Craig has published a wide range of scholarly articles, book chapters and books in the field. Most notably these include a history of the army cadet movement in Australia, The Torch and the Sword (2007); a study of the First Libyan Campaign in North Africa 1940–41, Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac (2009); a reinterpretation of the German invasion of Greece in 1941, Swastika over the Acropolis (2013, with Associate Professor Eleanor Hancock); and most recently Britannia’s Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late Victorian Imperial Defence (2015). He has also edited a number of books, including Zombie Myths of Australian Military History (2010), Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History (2012) and Before the Anzac Dawn (2013, with Dr John Connor).