Australian Army Journal

AAJ - Volume III, Number 3, Summer 2006

EDITORIAL

Awards

The 2006 Chauvel Essay Prize

Point Blank

The Philosophy of Special Operations
Major General Mike Hindmarsh

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Robert Pape

The Complexities of Counterterrorist Operations
Major General Ranjit Nadkarni (Retd)

Ideas and Issues

Lessons from the Past: Getting the Army's Doctrine 'Right Enough' Today
Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege (Retd)

Burning Bright: Defence Policy, Strategy and the Imagination
Brendan Sargeant

Bombers and Tanks: Understanding the Myths
David Kilcullen

Current Operations

The Essential Thing: Mission Command and its Practical Application
Lieutenant Colonel Roger Noble

Embracing Complexity: An Adaptive Eff ects Approach to the Conflict in Iraq
Lieutenant Colonel Gav Reynolds

Contemporary Employment of Infantry in a Combined-Arms Stability and Support Operations: SECDET VIII in Baghdad
Lieutenant T. J. M. Robinson

Urban Combat Service Support Operations: Observations and Insights from Iraq
Colonel Andrew Condon

New Zealand Civil-Military Affairs Experience in Afghanistan
Bryan Dorn

Review Essay

Generational Differences and other Marketing Myths
David Schmidtchen

Retrospect

Introduction

The Tank is Dead
Major W. W. Lennon

A Modern Armoured Force is Vital to Australia's Defence
Major B. G. Ranking

Book Reviews

Losing Iraq by David L. Phillips
Reviewed by Major Lynda Liddy

Failed States by Noam Chomsky
Reviewed by Hugh Smith

The Partnership by Greg Sheridan
Reviewed by Bree Larkham

My Story by General Peter Cosgrove
Reviewed by Dr Albert Palazzo

Strategy and History by Colin S. Gray
Reviewed By Lieutenant Colonel Gav Reynolds

The Cambridge History of Warfare edited by Geoffrey Parker
Reviewed by Anthony Robinson

Letters and Commentary

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS