Dr Cate Carter

Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

Other projects

Online Articles

2023, ‘Time to Specialise in Army’, The Cove, 18 Jul, https://cove.army.gov.au/article/time-specialise-army 

2021, ‘The New Citizen Soldier, Lowy Interpreter, 25 Aug, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/new-citizen-soldier

2020, ‘The Disappearance of the Military Identity in the Corporatisation of ADF Women, The Cove, 25 Nov, https://cove.army.gov.au/article/the-disappearance-the-military-identity-the-corporatisation-adf-women   

2020, ‘The Intellectual Edge’, The Forge, 7 Sept, https://theforge.defence.gov.au/publications/intellectual-edge.  

2020, ‘The Other Art of War – The Value of Performing Arts to the Modern Military Practitioner’ Grounded Curiosity, 14 Jul https://groundedcuriosity.com/the-other-art-of-war-the-value-of-performing-arts-to-the-modern-military-practitioner/#.XxKB3ygzaM8

2020, ‘The Business of Leadership’ Land Power Forum, Australian Army Research Centre, 29 May https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/land-power-forum/business-leadership

2020, ‘Standing in the Picture: Incorporating Reflexivity into your research’. Land Power Forum, Australian Army Research Centre, 13 May, https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/land-power-forum/standing-picture-incorporating-reflexivity-your-research

2020, ‘Being one of the boys in the military, Lowy Interpreter, 20 Feb, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/being-one-boys-military

2019, ‘Learning from Clive James: on the language of strategy’ (with Jason Thomas), Lowy  Interpreter, 17 Dec, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/learning-clive-james-language-strategy

2019, ‘On Mass: An Argument for Real Debate’ (with Jason Thomas), AIIA Outlook, 28 Nov, http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/on-mass-an-argument-for-real-debate/

2019, ‘Australian civil-military relations: Who guards the guardians?’, Lowy Interpreter, 25 Nov, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/who-guards-guardians

2019, ‘No Skin Left in the Game: doing the maths of intensive war’(with Charles Knight), AIIA Outlook, 5 Sep, http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/no-skin-left-in-the-game-doing-the-maths-of-intensive-war/

2019, ‘The Janowitz Citizen: or how  to get the most out of the reserve’, Defence Connect, 2 Sep, https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/land-amphibious/4693-the-janowitz-citizen-or-how-to-get-more-out-of-the-reserve

2019, ‘Paying a blood price: understanding the casualty cost of intensive war’ (with Charles Knight), Lowy Interpreter, 12 Jul 2019, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/paying-blood-price-understanding-casualty-cost-intensive-war

2019 ‘The Huntington Imperatives’, Land Power Forum, Australian Army Research Centre, 2 Jul, https://www.army.gov.au/our-future/blog/strategy/the-huntington-imperatives-major-cate-carter

2019 ‘The “khaki cavalcade” dilemma when soldiers become public servants’, Lowy Interpreter, 13 Jun, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/khaki-cavalcade-dilemma-when-soldiers-become-public-servants

2018, ‘Social Contracts and the Australian Civil-Military Relationship’, AIIA Outlook, 20 Aug, http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/social-contracts-and-the-australian-civil-military-relationship/

2018 ‘The Moskos Pendulum’, Land Power Forum, Australian Army Research Centre, 28 Jun, https://www.army.gov.au/our-future/blog/cognitive-edge/the-moskos-pendulum-major-cate-carter

2018 ‘Cricketers and Diggers’, Land Power Forum, Australian Army Research Centre, 1 May, https://www.army.gov.au/our-future/blog/strategy/cricketers-and-diggers-major-cate-carter

2015 ‘Dealing with Defence: the problem with a military covenant’, The Conversation, 20 Jan. https://theconversation.com/dealing-with-defence-the-problems-with-a-military-covenant-34022

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Chapters

Other outputs

Journal Articles

2018 ‘Tell us What you Really Think! A new way to measure public opinion’, Australian Defence Force Journal, No 203, Jan, https://www.defence.gov.au/adc/adfj/Documents/issue_203/ADF%20Journal%20203_Article_Carter.pdf

2014 ‘Unfinished Business: the gap in service to veterans’, Australian Defence Force Journal, No 194, Aug. https://www.defence.gov.au/adc/adfj/Documents/issue_194/194_2014_Jul_Aug.pdf

2013 ‘A Time to Speak: finding a voice in the Asia Pacific’, Australian Defence Force Journal, No 191, Jul. https://www.defence.gov.au/adc/adfj/Documents/issue_191/191_2013_Jul_Aug.pdf

2011 ‘Cause for Engagement: examining the case for Foreign Area Officers in Army’, Australian Army Journal, Vol VIII, No 2, Winter. https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/australian-army-journal-aaj/volume-8-number-2-winter

2010 ‘Citizen Soldier’, Australian Army Journal, Vol VII, No 1, Autumn. https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/australian-army-journal-aaj/volume-7-number-1-autumn

Conference Papers

2019 ‘The Feted and the Fallen: civil responses to military awards and deaths’, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Reston, Nov https://www.academia.edu/40485379/The_Feted_and_The_Fallen_Civil_responses_to_military_awards_and_deaths

2018 ‘The Social Contract and the Australian Civil-Military Relationship’, International Political Science Association World Congress, Brisbane, Jul, https://www.academia.edu/37113687/The_Social_Contract_and_the_Australian_Civil-Military_Relationship

Doctoral Thesis

2020, ‘Cultural Characteristics of the Australian Civil-Military Relationship’, PhD Thesis, Deakin University, Melbourne, https://deakin.academia.edu/CateCarter/Thesis-Chapters

Book Chapters

2024, ‘Antipodean Insights into Civil-Military Relations’, in The New Australian Military Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives (Eds. Brad West and Cate Carter), Berghahn Books, New York (Aug 2024) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WestNew

2024, ‘Standing in the Picture: Reflexive Practice in Australian Military Research’, in The New Australian Military Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives (Eds. Brad West and Cate Carter), Berghahn Books, New York (Aug 2024) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WestNew

2024, ‘Antipodean Militar Sociology and the Future of Civil-Military Relations Analysis: The Promise of Civil Sphere Theory’, in The New Australian Military Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives (Eds. Brad West and Cate Carter), Berghahn Books, New York (Aug 2024) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WestNew

2021, ‘Recasting the Warrior: The Victoria Cross for Australia and contemporary civil-military relations’, in Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior, Eds. Brad West ad Thomas Crosbie, Springer. https://www.waterstones.com/book/militarization-and-the-global-rise-of-paramilitary-culture/brad-west/thomas-crosbie/9789811655876