Australian Army Journal

AAJ - Volume V, Number 3, Summer 2008

Editorial

Introduction

An Adaptive Army
Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie AO DSC CSM

Operations

Military Operations in the 21st Century: A Cultural Cringe?
Colonel Michael Lehmann

Flying a Plane While in the Process of Building It: Reflections on Iraq
Major Michael Scott

War of the People: Counterinsurgency Education for Non-Commissioned Officers
Warrant Officer Michael Craig

Post-Operational Debriefing in the Australian Army
Jennifer Medbury

No Casualties Please, We're Soldiers
Albert Palazzo

Concepts

What Motivates Suicide Attackers?
Bombardier Alexander Howe

Future War – Future Warfare
Justin Kelly

Doctrine and Training

Adaptive Campaigning: One Marine's Perspective
Major Charles Dockery, USMC

Adaptive Campaigning: Implications for Operational Health Support
S J Neuhaus, N I Klinge, R M Mallet and D H M Saul

How the Army Learned to Plan but Forgot How to Think
Lieutenant Colonel Richard King

Welfare Warfighters and Adaptive Campaigning
Colonel Chris Field

Military History

Opening Address: 2008 Chief of Army's Military History Conference
Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie AO DSC CSM

Coalition Perspectives

The Provincial Reconstruction Teams and Their Part in ‘Stabilisation': What's in a Name?
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Jackson & Doctor Stuart Gordon

Crossfire

Avoiding the issues: David Buring's review of The Minefield: An Australian tragedy in Vietnam
Greg Lockhart

Letters and Commentary

Book Reviews

Firearms: The Life Story of a Technology by Roger Pauly
Reviewed by Antony Trentini

The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality by Wolfam Wette
Reviewed by Russell A Hart

Robert E Lee: Icon for a Nation by Brian Holden Reid
Reviewed by Scott Hopkins

Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham
Reviewed by John McCarthy

Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian (eds)
Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Mark O'Neill

Running the War in Iraq: An Australian general, 300,000 troops, the bloodiest conflict of our time by Jim Molan
Reviewed by Albert Palazzo

Titles To Note

Milestones

In Memoriam

General Sir Francis Hassett
Alec Jeffrey Hill

Chauvel Essay Prize Winner 2008

Notes For Contributors