# David Dickens

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**David Dickens** is a former [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand) defence strategist. He was deputy director (1996-1999) and then director (1999-2002) of the [Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand](/source/Centre_for_Strategic_Studies_New_Zealand).

## Overview

Dickens (Born in Eketahuna, 1963), educated St Joseph's College and Chanel College Masterton, is a former soldier with the 7th Wellington and Hawkes Bay Regiment, and 2nd/1st Battalion of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, and was a Ministry of Defence official (1990-1996). He is a graduate of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Senior Command and Staff College Course (1993), and has BA with First Class Honours (1989) and PhD (1996) degrees from the [Victoria University of Wellington](/source/Victoria_University_of_Wellington). His thesis was *New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Official Policy Advice to the Government 1960-1972*.[1] He visited the United States under the auspices of the United States State Department Visitor Programme in 1997 and India as a guest of the Indian Foreign Ministry in 2001.[2]

## References

1. ["Student Publications - PhD Thesis (by Author)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100316115009/http://www.victoria.ac.nz/pols/research/student-research/student-publications-phd-theses.aspx). Victoria University of Wellington. Archived from [the original](http://www.victoria.ac.nz/pols/research/student-research/student-publications-phd-theses.aspx) on 16 March 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2010.

1. NZ Who's Who and RNZAF Command and Staff College Biography (2000)

## External links

- [Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand](http://www.vuw.ac.nz/css/)
- [ABC](http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s113547.htm) - Dickens on the F-16 purchase decision

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