Australian Army Journal

AAJ - Volume V, Number 1, Autumn 2008

Editorial

Point Blank

Reconsidering the 1968 Tet Offensive
James H Willbanks

Operations

Contested Nation-Building: The Challenge of Countering Insurgency in Afghanistan in 2007
Colonel John Frewen

We Were Soldiers Once … The Decline of the Royal Australian Infantry Corps?
Major Jim Hammett

Enhancing Operational Capability: Making Infantry More Deployable
Captain Greg Colton

Future Concepts And Force Development

Towards a National Security Strategy for Australia
Major Steve Forrest

Australian Army Aviation and Command in the Combined Arms Environment: A Cultural Shift Required?
Major Kim Gilfillan

Ideas And Issues

Primacy and the Unipolar Moment: The Debate over American Power in an Asymmetrical World
William Thomas Allison

From Red to Blue: China and Peacekeeping
Loro Horta

Incentive Options for Performance-Based Logistic Contracts
Elizabeth Barber

Retrospect

The ‘Red Rats' and Phuoc Tuy
Captain Ian Hutchison

Book Reviews

The Minefield – An Australian Tragedy in Vietnam by Greg Lockhart
Reviewed by Brigadier David Buring (Retd.)

The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War by Brian McAllister Linn
Reviewed by Albert Palazzo

Doves Over the Pacific: In Pursuit of Peace and Stability on Bougainville by Reuben R E Bowd
Reviewed by Colonel Bob Breen

Swords and Ploughshares — Bringing Peace to the 21st Century by Paddy Ashdown
Reviewed by Colonel Marcus Fielding

Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of US Cavalry by George F Hofmann
Reviewed by Dr Jean Bou

3 Para by Patrick Bishop
Reviewed by James Cameron

Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D Samet
Reviewed by Natalia Forrest

Titles To Note

Chauvel Essay Prize Winner 2007

Letters And Commentary

A response to ‘Vietnam—The Australian War'
Bruce Davies

Notes For Contributors