Select Publications
Books
, 2022, Born of Fire and Ash Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000
, 2020, Letters from the Veldt The Imperial Advance to Pretoria Through the Eyes of Edward Hutton and His Brigade of Colonials
, 2015, Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late-Victorian Imperial Defence
, 2013, Swastika over the Acropolis, BRILL, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004254596
, 2013, Before the Anzac Dawn, University of New South Wales Press Ltd., Sydney Australia
, 2013, Swastika Over the Acropolis Re-interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War Two, Brill Academic Pub
, 2012, Anzac's Dirty Dozen, stockings, c , (ed.), UNSW Press, Sydney
, 2010, Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, Stockings CA, (ed.), UNSW Press, Sydney Australia
, 2010, Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, stockings, c , (ed.), UNSW Press
, 2009, Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac, UNSW Press, Sydney
, 2007, The Making and Breaking of the Post-Federation Australian Army, 1901-09, Land Warfare Centre, Canberra
, 2007, The Torch and the Sword, UNW Press, Sydney
, 2006, The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
, 2000, Paratroopers as Peacekeepers - 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment East Timor 1999-2000, Sydney
Book Chapters
, 2020, 'The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor', in Niche Wars Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001–2014, ANU Press, pp. 313 - 323
, 2020, 'The Enduring Impact', in Frame T (ed.), INTERFET Lessons and Legacies from East Timor 20 Years on, pp. 132 - 150
, 2018, 'An organisation structured for peace: the command, control and planning difficulties of Operations Warden/Stabilise, East Timor, 1999', in The Skill of Adaptability: the learning curve in combat, Big Sky Publishing, Canberra, pp. 220 - 234
, 2018, 'Official but not history, history but not official', in Jeff Grey A Life in History, pp. 30 - 44
, 2017, 'A continuing tradition…but a whole new ballgame: the Official Historian of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor', in Stanley P (ed.), Charles Bean Man, Myth, Legacy, pp. 215 - 228
, 2017, 'The First Commander: Lieutenant Sir Edward 'Curley' Hutton', in The Shadow Men: The Leaders Who Shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 9 - 36
, 2017, ''A continuing tradition...but a whole new ballgame: the Official Historian of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor'', in Charles Bean: Man, Myth and Legacy, UNSW Press Sydney, Sydney
, 2016, 'On the outside looking in: reflections of the INTERFET deployment 1999-2000', in On Ops: Lessons and Challenges for the Australian Army since East Timor, UNSW Press
, 2013, 'British soldiers in colonial Australia', in Stockings C; Connor J (ed.), Before the ANZAC Dawn, NewSouth, Sydney, pp. 39 - 61
, 2013, 'British soldiers in in colonial Australia', in Stockings C; Connor J (ed.), Before the Anzac Dawn: a Military History of Australia to 1915, pp. 39 - 61
, 2013, 'Australia's Boy Soldiers: The Army Cadet Movement', in Stockings C; Connor J (ed.), Before the Anzac Dawn, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 174 - 208
, 2013, 'The capture of German New Guinea', in Connor J; Stockings C (ed.), Before the Anzac Dawn: A military history of Australia to 1915, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 283 - 303, http://newsouthpublishing.com/
, 2012, '"They also served": Exaggerating women's role in Australia's wars', in Stockings C (ed.), Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 100 - 111
, 2012, '‘‘Landmark’ battles and the myths of Vietnam’', in Stockings (ed.), Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: Twelve myths and misconceptions of Australian military history, Sydney
, 2012, 'Introduction: Myths and Australian Military History', in Stockings C (ed.), Anzacs Dirty Dozen, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 1 - 11
, 2012, 'Other People's Wars', in Stockings C (ed.), Anzacs Dirty Dozen, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 73 - 100
, 2010, 'Dramatic myth, dull truth: invasion by japan in 1942', in Stockings C (ed.), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, NewSouth
, 2010, 'An Abundance of Riches: Training and Sustaining the Second AIF in the First Libyan Campaign, North Africa, 1940-41', in Raise, Train and Sustain, Australian Military History Publications (AMHP), Sydney, pp. 93 - 107
, 2010, 'The Diggers were born Soldiers', in , pp. 93 - 115
, 2010, 'There is an idea the Australian is a natural born soldier', in Stockings C (ed.), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, UNSW Press, Sydney Australia, pp. 93 - 115
, 2008, 'A Kangaroo Slain by a Talisman Saber – We’ve Come a Long Way in a Few Short Years…', in Duty First: 60 Years of the Royal Australian Regiment, Faircount Media Group, Sydney
, 2008, 'The Difficult Years, 1980-2000', in Duty First: 60 Years of the Royal Australian Regiment, Faircount Media Group, Sydney
, 2008, 'The Formation of the Royal Australian Regiment', in Duty First: 60 Years of the Royal Australian Regiment, Faircount Media Group, Sydney
, 2008, 'Upheaval, Uncertainty and Opportunity: UN Operations and Australia, 1990-99', in Horner D; Bou J (ed.), Duty First: A History of the Royal Australian Regiment, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 281 - 305
Edited Books
Stockings C, (ed.), 2021, An Army of Influence: eighty years of regional engagement, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009086929
Stockings C, (ed.), 2017, The Shadow Men: the leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, UNSW Press, Sydney
Journal articles
, 2025, 'Discussing possible futures to neutralise nuclear energy discourse', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.115105
, 2016, 'Ever kind of Machiavellian plot: Curley Hutton and Canada's march to a war in South Africa', Canadian Army Journal, 16, No. 2, pp. 31 - 53
, 2016, 'The weary Titan staggers under the too vast orb of its fate: Post-Federation Australia and the problem of Imperiall Defence', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2016, 44, No. 6, pp. 900 - 927
, 2015, '‘“A Trojan Horse” in the Colony? Federal and imperial defence in the Australian Colonies, 1893-96’', Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 17, pp. 159 - 184, http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=430146271911278;res=IELHSS
, 2015, '‘“There is nothing new under the sun”: An early Australian coalition operation, South Africa, 1900’', Australian Defence Force Journal: journal of the Australian profession of arms, pp. 27 - 38
, 2015, '‘Rethinking Allied relationships during the Greek Campaign, April 1941’, , Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 6-32.', Global War Studies, 11, pp. 6 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.5893/19498489.11.03.01
, 2014, 'The Minefield of Australian Military History', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60, pp. 580 - 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12077
, 2014, 'The invasion of Greece in 1941 and the Nazi hordes that never were...', Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 16-17, pp. 147 - 164
, 2013, ''Somthing is wrong with our army ...': Command, Leadership and Italian Military Failure in the First Libyan Campaign, 1940-41', Defence Studies, pp. 125 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2013.808103
, 2013, 'Australia from the Colonial Era to the Present', Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199791279-0107