Complex sentence: Rear Admiral James Vincent Purcell Goldrick, AM, CSC (born 1958) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy until retirement in 2012, an author, and a naval historian and analyst of contemporary naval and maritime affairs.
Split into simpler sentences: Rear Admiral James Vincent Purcell Goldrick, AM, CSC (born 1958) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy until retirement in 2012. He is an author and a naval historian and analyst of contemporary naval and maritime affairs.