David Horner

**David Murray Horner**, AM, FASSA (an haife shi 12 Maris 1948) Masanin tarihin soja ne kuma masanin kimiyya na Australiya.

## Rayuwa ta farko da aikin soja
An haifi Horner a Adelaide, Kudancin Australia, a ranar 12 ga Maris 1948. Ya girma a cikin gidan soja - mahaifinsa, Murray Horner, ya yi aiki a New Guinea a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu. Kamar Murray, David Horner ya halarci Kwalejin Prince Alfred .  Horner ya kasance prefect kuma ya yi aiki a kwamitoci da yawa ciki har da littafin shekara, muhawara, cadets, da ƙungiyar Kirista ta ɗalibai.

Daga baya ya shiga Sojojin Jama'a - kuma ya shiga Sojan Australiya bayan kammala makaranta a 1966. Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Soja ta Royal, Duntroon a shekarar 1969, an ba shi izini a matsayin mataimakin a cikin Royal Australian Infantry Corps. A shekara ta 1971, Horner ya yi yawon shakatawa na watanni takwas a Vietnam a matsayin kwamandan Rukunin a cikin 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.[1][2] Ya kasance abokin ziyara tare da Ma'aikatar Tarihi a Kwalejin Tsaro ta Australiya daga 1985 zuwa 1988, kuma memba ne na ma'aikatan jagora a Kwaleji ta Ma'aikatan Haɗin gwiwa a cikin 1988 zuwa 1990.[3] Horner ya yi ritaya daga aikin soja na cikakken lokaci a shekarar 1991 bayan ya sami matsayi tare da Jami'ar Kasa ta Australia (ANU) kuma ya koma Rundunar Sojojin Australiya, inda ya yi aiki sama da shekaru goma. Ya kasance kwamandan kwamandan farko na Cibiyar Nazarin Yakin Kasa (1998-2002), kuma ya yi ritaya tare da matsayi na kolin.[4]

Horner yana da difloma na Nazarin Soja daga Duntroon, Master of Arts (Honours) daga Jami'ar New South Wales, kuma ya kammala karatu tare da Doctor of Philosophy daga ANU a 1980. Rubutun digirinsa, wanda Robert O'Neill ya kula da shi kuma ya kammala yayin da yake aiki a cikin sojoji, ya shafi dabarun Australiya da Allied a cikin Yaƙin Pacific kuma ya zama tushen littafinsa na biyu, High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy, 1939-1945 (1982).

## Masanin tarihi da ilimi
An nada Horner zuwa matsayi a Cibiyar Nazarin Dabarun da Tsaro ta ANU a shekarar 1990.  A shekara ta 1998 an bayyana shi a matsayin "ɗaya daga cikin masanan tarihi na soja na Ostiraliya da aka fi girmamawa",  kuma a 1999 an sanya shi Farfesa na Tarihin Tsaro na Ostiraali a Makarantar Bincike ta Pacific da Nazarin Asiya ta ANU (daga baya Makarantar Coral Bell ta Harkokin Asiya ta Pacific);  rawar da ya yi har zuwa shekara ta 2014.

A shekara ta 2004 an nada Horner a matsayin Masanin Tarihi na Jami'i kuma babban edita na Tarihin Harkokin Zaman Lafiya na Australiya, Humanitarian da Post-Cold War Operations, tarihin kundi shida wanda ya shafi shigar Australia a cikin ayyukan kiyaye zaman lafiya na duniya daga 1947 zuwa 2006. Horner ya rubuta ko kuma ya hada hannu da kundi na biyu da na uku: Australia da 'New World Order' (2011) kuma, tare da John Connor, The Good International Citizen (2014). Wata kungiya da Horner ke jagoranta ta kuma lashe takardar neman izinin rubuta Tarihin hukuma na Kungiyar leken asiri ta Tsaro ta Australia (ASIO).Jerin uku, wanda ya gano shekaru arba'in na farko na tarihin ASIO daga 1949 zuwa 1989, Horner's The Spy Catchers ne ya jagoranci (2014). John Blaxland's The Protest Years ya biyo baya a cikin 2015,  da kuma Blaxland da Rhys Crawley's The Secret Cold War a cikin 2016. The Spy Catchers tare sun lashe lambar yabo ta Firayim Minista na Tarihin Australiya, shi ne kawai ya lashe kyautar St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award, kuma an daɗe ana lissafa shi don Kyautar Majalisar Humanities, Arts da Social Sciences Australia don Littafin a cikin 2015. Horner ya kuma gudanar da binciken yiwuwar a cikin 2012 a cikin abin da ya zama Tarihin Ofishin Ayyukan Australiya a Iraki da Afghanistan, da Ayyukan Tsaro na Australiya a Gabashin Timor.

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