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The deliberate disclosures of vast tranches of classified information to the media is a relatively recent phenomenon, with some scholars predicting that “the mass leaker may replace or supplement t...

This paper sets out to consider Brendon Tarrant in the context of New Zealand terrorism. While Tarrant’s attack on 15 March 2019 was unprecedented in terms of its scale, he was in many ways a somew...

In 1955, the New Zealand government authorised the creation of a Special Forces unit to operate with British forces in Malaya to counter a communist-inspired guerrilla insurgency. Drawing upon the operational experiences of the New Zealand SAS largely taken from the Cold War period, and underpinned by Colin Gray's Special Forces essentials of ‘economy of force’ and ‘expansion of choice’, this article will show how New Zealand's SAS is now accepted not only as a respected and relevant part of the nation's military capability, but also empowers its political decision-makers with the confidence to take on significant, and at times difficult, strategic foreign-policy choices.