Dr Richard Dunley

Associate Professor

��¼� Canberra

School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr Richard Dunley is a Senior Lecturer in history and maritime strategy in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), ��¼� Canberra.

Research Interests

British naval & strategic policy c.1856-1920
British diplomatic history c.1856-1920
Maritime Strategy - historic and contemporary
Naval technology
Australian defence policy & strategy

Phone

+61 2 5114 5080

E-mail

r.dunley@unsw.edu.au

Books | 2018

Dunley R, 2018, Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915 Culture, Strategy and International Law, Springer

Books | 2018

Dunley R, 2018, Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915, Springer International Publishing,
Book Chapters | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Middle Power Aircraft Carriers: The Experience of the Royal Australian Navy in the Era of the Korean War', in Coalition Navies during the Korean War Understanding Combined Naval Operations, Taylor & Francis,

Book Chapters | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'The First World War at Sea: A Tale of Two Wars', in The Routledge History of the First World War, Taylor & Francis, pp. 103 - 114,

Book Chapters | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'The "Problem of Asia" and Imperial Competition Before World War I', in The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific Strategy, Order, and Regional Security, Georgetown University Press, pp. 151 - 168,

Book Chapters | 2022

Dunley R; Morgan Owen D, 2022, 'Naval History, Maritime Strategy, and the Role of Technology', in Power in the Maritime Domain: A Global Dialogue, Routledge, London,

Book Chapters | 2014

Dunley RE, 2014, '‘“The Most Resistless and Revolutionary Weapon of Naval Warfare that has Ever Been Introduced”: The Royal Navy and the Whitehead Torpedo 1870-1890’', in A Military Transformed? Adaption and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945, Helion & Company Limited
Journal articles | 2025

Dunley R; Kempf E, 2025, 'Inhumane, treacherous or uselessly cruel? Debating underwater weapons, 1880–1939', Critical Military Studies, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 11,

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Australianised military off-the-shelf: Australia's naval ship design ethos and the Anzac Class frigates', Marine Policy, 161, pp. 106003,

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Plan B?: Reconsidering Australian Security in the event of a post US alliance era', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 78, pp. 479 - 497,

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Small Mobile Pieces of National Sovereignty?—Uncrewed Vessels, Naval Diplomacy, and the Challenge of Signaling', Naval War College Review,

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'The End of the Age of Transoceanic Navies?: Democratisation of A2/AD and the Relationship Between Land and Sea Power', Rusi Journal, 169, pp. 54 - 62,

Journal articles | 2024

Dunley R, 2024, 'Without it We're STUFT: Australian Military Logistics and Ships Taken up from Trade', Australian Army Journal, 20, pp. 15 - 33,

Journal articles | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'The end of the ‘lucky country’? Understanding the failure of the AUKUS policy debate', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77, pp. 317 - 324,

Journal articles | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'Uncrewed naval vessels and the span of maritime tasks', Marine Policy, 149,

Journal articles | 2023

Dunley R, 2023, 'Unsinkable Ships?', Australian Army Journal, 19,

Journal articles | 2022

Dunley R, 2022, 'Operation Q: Churchill and Fisher's Invasion of Germany, 1915?', Journal of Military History (US), 86, pp. 612 - 641

Journal articles | 2022

Dunley R, 2022, 'Rebuilding the Mills of Sea Power: Interwar British Planning for Economic Warfare against Japan', International History Review, 44, pp. 1091 - 1107,

Journal articles | 2021

Dunley R; Pugh J, 2021, 'Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives', Twentieth Century British History, 32, pp. 581 - 607,

Journal articles | 2020

Dunley R, 2020, 'The Archive of the Edwardian Foreign Office: The Archaeology of a Collection and Its Use', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 31, pp. 429 - 449,

Journal articles | 2019

Dunley R, 2019, 'Anti-Submarine Warfare in the Pre-First World War Royal Navy: A Cultural Failure?', War in History, 27, pp. 617 - 642,

Journal articles | 2017

Dunley R, 2017, 'Invasion, raids and army reform: the political context of ‘flotilla defence’, 1903–5', Historical Research, 90, pp. 613 - 635,

Journal articles | 2016

Dunley RE, 2016, 'Technology and Tradition: Mine Warfare and the Royal Navy’s Strategy of Coastal Assault 1870-1890', Journal of Military History, 80, pp. 389 - 409

Journal articles | 2015

Dunley R, 2015, ''The warrior has always shewed himself greater than his weapons': The Royal Navy's interpretation of the Russo- Japanese War 1904-5', War and Society, 34, pp. 248 - 262,

Journal articles | 2015

Dunley R, 2015, 'Sir John Fisher and the Policy of Strategic Deterrence, 1904–1908', War in History, 22, pp. 155 - 173,

Journal articles | 2015

Dunley RE, 2015, '"Not intended to act as spies”: The Consular Intelligence Service in Denmark and Germany 1906-1914', International History Review, 37, pp. 481 - 502,
Reports | 2025

Dunley R; Moss T; Townsend N; Booth M; Crawley R; Hutchinson M; Richardson T, 2025, Public Attitudes Towards the Australian Defence Force Iterim Report, /content/dam/pdfs/unsw-canberra/hass/Public%20Attitudes%20Towards%20the%20Australian%20Defence%20Force%20Survey%20Interim%20Report%20v3.pdf

Reports | 2025

Dunley R; Moss T; Townsend N; Booth M; Crawley R; Hutchison M; Richardson T, 2025, Public Attitudes towards the Australian Defence Force: Final Report, ��¼� Canberra, Canberra, /content/dam/pdfs/unsw-canberra/hass/Public%20Attitudes%20Towards%20the%20ADF%20Report%20-V3.pdf

Reports | 2025

Townsend N; Moss T; Booth M; Richardson T; Hutchison M; Stahel D; Crawley R; Dunley R, 2025, Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History

Media | 2025

Dunley R; Booth M; Moss T, 2025, Only a third of Australians support increasing defence spending: new research, The Conversation,

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