General Michael Jeffery

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Military Career

Malaya

Michael Jeffrey graduated from the Australian Royal Military College in 1958. After four years in a variety of junior positions, he fought briefly in 1962 at the end of the Australian-British counterinsurgency campaign opposed to the decolonization and liberation of Malaya from English colonial rule.[1]

Papua New Guinea

From 1966 to 1969, Jeffrey was assigned to the Australian military occupation of Papua New Guinea, which achieved its formal independence from Australia six years after he departed in 1975.

Vietnam

Jeffrey left Papua New Guinea in 1969 to fight in the ecocidal and genocidal American-led counterinsurgency campaign in Vietnam. In 2002 as the Governor of Western Australia, he defended the campaign to a group of Australian Veterans: "I believe passionately that Vietnam was a just cause in the circumstances of the time."

[[Re: Agent Orange + Australian Veterans[2][3][4][5]

Australia

"In 1979 he was named the first Director of the Army's Special Action Forces. In the position he was instrumental in developing the surveillance concept for Northern Australia and helped prepare the development of the Australian counter-terrorist concept and capability. In the 1980's Jeffrey headed the Australian national counter-terrorist co-ordination authority. In 1985 he was promoted to major-general and was appointed to command the first division in 1986. In the 1990's he became Deputy Chief of the General Staff, the second highest appointment in the Australian Army."[6]

Political Career

Governor of Western Australia

Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996.

Governor-General of Australia

Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. This made him "the representative of Queen Elizabeth II in all of the Commonwealth of Australia" as well as the Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Military, which is a political position as with the US President. He was the first military general to hold this position.

Iraq

COIN Review

Savory Method

  1. ↑ https://anzacday.org.au/malayan-emergency
  2. ↑ https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/vietnam-war-1962-1975/events/aftermath/agent-orange#:~:text=Concerns%20about%20the%20use%20of,also%20blamed%20on%20Agent%20Orange.
  3. ↑ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2756438/
  4. ↑ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1985.tb00472.x
  5. ↑ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1985.tb00472.x
  6. ↑ https://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=12&new_day=12&new_year=2015
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