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Brigadier Francis Philip "Ted" Serong DSO, OBE (11 November 1915 – 1 October 2002) was a senior officer of the Australian Army, most notable for his contributions to counter-insurgency and jungle warfare tactics, and as commander of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam from 1962 until 1965. ==Biography== Serong was born in the Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford on 11 November 1915, the first son of William and Mabel Serong. He won a scholarship to St Kevin's College and then attended the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He graduated from Duntroon in 1937, serving with the artillery, then with an armoured regiment until. He joined the infantry and saw combat as a staff and regimental officer with the 6th Division in New Guinea, 1942–45. As a colonel, he headed the newly reopened Jungle Warfare Training Centre at Canungra, in south-eastern Queensland. In 1957 he became counter-insurgency instructor to the Burmese armed forces. From 1960–62 he was strategic adviser to the Burmese armed forces. In 1962 he was selected to lead the Australian Army instructors team in Vietnam. Serong left the Australian Army in 1968 with the rank of Brigadier. He stayed on in Vietnam as a security and intelligence adviser to the South Vietnamese Government for some years. He also prepared strategic analyses for the Rand organisation, the Hudson Institute and other US corporations and was a consultant to the Pentagon. In 1971 Serong declared that South Vietnam had essentially won the war. Serong served in Vietnam until the fall of Saigon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ted Serong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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