Australian Army Journal

AAJ - Volume III, Number 1, Summer 2005-06

Editorial

The New Grey World of War

Point Blank

An Interview with the Prime Minister, the Hon. John Howard, MP

Ideas and Issues

A Perspective on Australian Grand Strategy
General Peter Cosgrove (Retd)

The Remodelling of Armed Forces: A Danish Perspective
J. Oerstroem Moeller

Command And Leadership

Nurturing, Harnessing and Exploiting the Army Officer of the 21st Century
Major Colin Lea

The War in Iraq

The Evolving Iraqi Security Forces: Anatomy, Vision and Challenges (Part 2)
Barak A. Salmoni

Strategy

The United States Unified Command Plan: How the Department of Defense Organises the Globe
Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Fielding

Reformers and Defenders: Perceptions of Change in Australian Defence Strategy since 11 September 2001
Christian Hirst

Operations

Operation Telic and the British Army in the Iraq Campaign of 2003: A Personal View
Major General Robin Brims

Joint Operations

Victory Despite Defeat? The Pyramid Event Counter-method, Unconventional Warfare and the Use Of Dominant Force
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Mumford

Tactics

Putting the Fight into Infantry Fighting Vehicles: Mechanised Infantry in the Hardened and Networked Army
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Rozzoli

Doctrine, Education and Training

Organisational Learning and Unit Core Competency in the Australian Army
Warrant Officer Class 1 Glynn Potter

War and Culture

Cultural Ruthlessness and the War against Terror
Christopher Coker

Terrorism

From a War on Terror to a War of Ideas
David Lazarus

Political Islam and the New Global Insecurity: An Australian Perspective
David Martin Jones

Military History

Acquiring Armour: Some Aspects of the Australian Army's Leopard Tank Purchase
Richard Pelvin

The Stress and Pressures of Command: A Case Study of the Battle of Milne Bay
Captain Jason Worme

Hell at Porton
Karl James

Forum

The Case for The Tyranny of Dissonance
Thomas-Durell Young

The Case against The Tyranny of Dissonance
Air Commodore Norman Ashworth, RAAF (Retd)

Chief of Army's Essay Prize Winner 2004

General Sir Thomas Blamey: Flawed Commander or Political Victim?
Major David Smith

Insights

The Three-block War and Future Conflict: Some Implications for the Rifle Platoon
Lieutenant Simon Cocksedge

An Argument for the Reintroduction of the Anti-Armour Platoon in the Australian Army
Captain Nick Hodda

Retrospect

General Sturdee and the Australian Army
Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Rowell

Milestones

Light Infantry in the Australian Army: A Memoir on the 60th Anniversary of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Lieutenant Colonel Chris Field

In Memoriam

Major General David Frederick Walter Engel

Brigadier Geoff rey David Solomon

Vale

Vice Admiral Arthur Karl Cebrowski (1942-2005): Pioneer of the Theory of Network-Centric Warfare
Michael Evans

Review Essay

Malign Terrain: Australia's War in New Guinea
Russell Parkin

Book RevieWS

Letters and CommentaRY

War is No Academic Matter
Brigadier Brian Cooper (Retd)

Power without Responsibility: The Media, Politics and Combat Operations
Michael O'Connor

The Chauvel Essay Prize Winners 2005

C. E. W. Bean Prize for Military History

Notes For Contributors