Desmond Ball (1947–2016)
Author of Strategic Nuclear _targeting
About the Author
Desmond Ball is a special professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, Canberra.
Image credit: Desmond Ball [credit: Australian National University]
Works by Desmond Ball
Pine Gap : Australia and the US geostationary signals intelligence satellite program (1988) 7 copies
Breaking Japanese diplomatic codes : David Sissons and D Special Section during the Second World War (2013) 6 copies
Burma's Military Secrets: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) from the Second World War to Civil War and Cyber Warfare (1998) 5 copies
The Northern Territory in the defence of Australia : strategic and operational considerations (1990) 5 copies
The Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) : it's record and its prospects (2000) 4 copies
Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration (1981) 4 copies
The boys in black : the Thahan Phran (Rangers), Thailand's para-military border guards (2004) 4 copies
Maintaining the strategic edge : the defence of Australia in 2015 (Canberra Paper No. 133) (1999) 3 copies
The next stage : preventive diplomacy and security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region (Canberra Paper No. 131) (1999) 3 copies
Building blocks for regional security : an Australian perspective on confidence and security building measures (CSBMs)… (1991) 3 copies
Invaluable service : the secret history of New Zealand's signals intelligence during two world wars (2011) 3 copies
The future of tactical airpower in the defence of Australia : proceedings of a conference organised by the Strategic… (1977) 3 copies
The tools of Owatatsumi : Japan's ocean surveillance and coastal defence capabilities (2015) 3 copies
Tor Chor Dor: Thailands Border Patrol Police: History, Orgnaization, Equipment and Personnel Volume 1: BPP (2013) 2 copies
Provocative plans : a critique of US strategy for maritime conflict in the North Pacific (Canberra Paper No. 79) (1991) 2 copies
Signals intelligence (SIGINT) in south Asia : India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (Canberra Paper No. 117) (1996) 2 copies
Toward a nuclear peace : the future of nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign and defense policy : report of the CSIS Nuclear… (1993) 2 copies
New technology : implications for regional and Australian security (Canberra Paper No. 76) (1991) 2 copies
Strategic studies in a changing world : global, regional and Australian perspectives (Canberra Paper No. 89) (1992) 2 copies
Signals intelligence in the post-cold war era : developments in the Asia-Pacific region (1993) 1 copy
Security Developments in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands (Australian Mekong Research Centre, Working Paper No. 9) (2003) 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Ball, Desmond John
- Other names
- Ball, Des
- Birthdate
- 1947-05-20
- Date of death
- 2016-10-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Nyah West, Victoria, Australia
- Education
- Australian National University
- Occupations
- strategic studies professor
- Organizations
- Australian National University
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific - Awards and honors
- Peter Baume Award (2013)
Order of Australia (2014)
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- Works
- 70
- Members
- 247
- Popularity
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- 3.3
- ISBNs
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