Tom Lewis (author) - Articles (selection)

Articles (selection)

• Maritimea Encyclopedia - 12 articles including: histories of the sinking of the Titanic; Battles of Leyte Gulf; Trafalgar, Coral Sea etc.; sinking of HMAS Sydney; the Falklands War; ship development through the ages.
• "Naval Intelligence and the ADF". Headmark – Dec 2009
• "Naval Leaders: Vice Admiral Creswell". Headmark, September 2010
• " John Collins and HMAS Sydney in 1940". Wartime - the magazine of the Australian War Memorial.
• "Land-based aircraft for warship protection?". Headmark magazine. Issue 129, September-2008.
• "The truth about Sydney - conspiracy theorists should crawl back into the bilges". Wartime magazine, Issue 45, mid-2008.
• "What has the wreck of the Sydney told us?" 'Warship magazine. Issue 44, mid-2008.
• "Needles and Haystacks - Why finding the wreck of the Sydney was so difficult". Wartime magazine, Issue 43, mid-2008.
• "What may the wreck of the Sydney reveal" - Warship Vol 42, RUSI Journal United Service Feb 2008, Headmark Dec 2007.
• “The Importance of Audience Perception in Communications from the Maritime Battlespace Environment of the Future – King-Hall History Conference, July 2007
• “Military History this week” - 54 articles within Victory Times – Iraq Coalition Troops newspaper, June–December 2006
• Media implications from the Gulf War Army Journal, June 2006
• Heroes of the Navy – Rear Admiral Sir David Martin – Warship magazine, Dec 2006
• “Lethality in Tactical Air Combat – a study of the image and the reality of fighter combat, and some consideration of the ethics involved”. ADF Journal No. 167, 2005
• “The Myth of Land-Based Aircraft for Naval Defence”, paper presented at the 2005 King-Hall Naval History Conference
• “Unsung Heroes of the Royal Australian Navy”. Paper presented at the International Conference of Historical Sciences, July 2005.
• “Infantry Lethality in Vietnam: My Lai was Inevitable, and not alone”. Paper presented at The Legacy of the Vietnam War Conference, University of Newcastle, April 2005
• Encyclopedia of Maritime History – Oxford University Press - "Naval Wages". 2005
• The Canberra Times – book reviews: July 2004 - October 2006
• “The Navy’s Finest Fighting Leader – Captain ‘Hec’ Waller, DSC” - The Journal of Australian Naval History, October 2004
• "Australia's Airpower at Sea - a new proposal for a flexible and mobile force" – winner of the 2003 Naval Officers’ Club Essay Competition. Published in the Australian Army Journal, November 2004. Also published in March 2005 in United Service – the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute.
• “Naval Interdiction in the North – Haphazard and Hazardous" – Paper presented at the 2003 King-Hall Naval History Conference
• “Myths concerning the number of deaths in the first Japanese attacks on Darwin in February 1942” - Wartime magazine, May 2003
• “Wreck Finding - Dreams and Reality: the true nature of finding the wrecks of HMAS Sydney and the Kormoran”. Australian Sea Heritage. Winter 2003
• “Deterrence, Capacity and Skill Retention: some thoughts on the acquisition or removal of platforms within the ADF” – ADF Journal – July 2002
• “What do the Public Think? - about the effectiveness of Australia’s Offshore Surveillance and Interdiction Effort” - Maritime Studies – June 2002