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It has been over fifteen years since the 1999 Intervention into East Timor, led by Australia with the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET). This collection of essays brings together a wide range of participants in the momentous events of 1999 and provides a timely reflection on how they see it - reflecting on the meaning, the consequences and the implications arising from the Timor intervention. East Timor Intervention encompasses eye-witness accounts of events on the ground as well as in the political sphere, including: Major General Mike Smith; Professor Hugh White, then Deputy Secretary Strategy in the Department of Defence in Canberra; Admiral Chris Barrie, Chief of the Defence Force at the time; General Sir Peter Cosgrove; Retired Indonesian Major General Kiki Syahnakri who stoutly defends Indonesia's role; and Professor Damien Kingsbury who spells out the scale of the crimes committed. His Excellency Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao seeks to rise above the enmity of the past and focus on the significance of INTERFET to East Timor and the path of reconciliation to the future. This is the landmark collection of work on the events of the INTERFET intervention.

Dr John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at SDSC at ANU who writes about military history, intelligence and security and Asia-Pacific affairs. His publications include The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (CUP, 2014) and “Australia, Indonesia and Southeast Asia” in Dean, et. al., Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era? (MUP 2014). In 2014 he was awarded a Minerva Research Initiative grant for a project entitled ""Thailand's Military, the USA and China"". He is also the author of the second volume and co-author of the third volume of the official history of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.