Senior Officer Professional Digest
Professional reading is a commitment to our Army's future. The Senior Officer Professional Digest (SOPD) has been designed to assist you to learn more about the issues that will shape the future of warfare. Reading is an intellectual force multiplier for the military profession. Apart from practical operational experience, which is our chief instructor, no other information source can compare with the material to be found in books and professional journals. As far as issues of contemporary importance are concerned, the many high quality professional journals from around the world can provide a small service, such as ours, with many different and valuable points of view.
Latest Edition: August 2008
This month the editors of the Senior Officer Professional Digest recommend ten articles drawn from professional and academic journals on the subjects of 'hearts and minds', counterterrorism, demographics, information war, intelligence analysis, civilianisation, counterinsurgency, India and Iran. 
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| Title | Description |
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 SOPD_63 (PDF) |
Contents: Winning Souls and Minds Powers of Persuasion Battle of the (youth) bulge Land Warrior Web War I Needed: A National Security Simulation Centre The U.S. Navy's Maiden Voyage Making Revolutionary Change The Next Asian Miracle Closing Time |
| SOPD_62 (PDF) |
Contents: China's Naval Ambitions in the Indian Ocean The Return of State Capitalism The strategic effects of preferential trade agreements DoD on a Glide Path to Bankruptcy Ambushes, IEDs and COIN: The French Experience Nonprofit Service Provision by Insurgent Organizations For-Profit Terrorism Towards a Reasonable Standard for Analysis One Size Does Not Fit All Naval Power and the Challenge of Technological Change |
| SOPD_61 (PDF) |
Contents: The End of the End of History The Mythical Shia Crescent Preparing for Coalition Command The Not-So-Black Art of Public Diplomacy Carpet bombing in cyberspace Virtual Iraq Indian Ocean Nexus Making Monetary Mischief The Secret Is the System Water in the 21st Century |
| SOPD_60 (PDF, 384 KB) |
Contents: Deciphering Sun Tzu When China Met Africa The Taiwan Strait and the Future of China's No-First-Use Nuclear Policy Alternative LHD-1 Class Warship Missions Revolutionary to Conventional-Evolution of GMLRS Talking 'Bout Our Generation? Money as a Force Multiplier in COIN The Al-Qaeda Media Machine Terrorists and Laser Weapons Use Taps and Terrorism: A German Approach? |
| SOPD_59 (PDF, 455 KB) |
Contents: Patient Stabilized? (Situation Critical) The Anbar Awakening Double-I, Double-N On Airpower, Land Power, and Counterinsurgency Iraq?s 100-Year Mortgage Understanding Proto-Insurgencies What France Does Best Russia Resurgent? Through the Looking Glass Undersea warfare |
| SOPD_58 (PDF, 389 KB) |
Contents: British Counter-Insurgency from Malaya to Iraq From Vietnam to Iraq Tribalism Under Fire Combat Motivation in Non-State Armed Groups Connecting Terrorist Networks The Alliance System of Abu Sayyaf, 1993-2000 America's Oil Market Power China's New Multi-Faceted Maritime Strategy China's Energy-Driven 'Soft Power' Climatic Engineering The Security Implications of Climate Change |
| SOPD_57 (PDF, 372 KB) |
Contents: The Military and Reconstruction Operations New Challenges and Old Concepts Becoming the enemy On the Consequences of Failure in Iraq On War: Lessons to be Learned What Makes a Terrorist The Biggest Myth China's Military Space Strategy: An Exchange China's Strategic Priorities in International Climate Change Negotiations The Security Implications of Climate Change |
| SOPD_56 (PDF, 444 KB) |
Contents: Dishonest Doctrine COIN of the Realm Training Foreign Police The Care and Feeding of Your Interpreter The Role of the Artillery in Afghanistan Buying Time in Afghanistan Avoiding the system reboot Who Lost Iraq? Up Periscope The Great Leap backward? |
| SOPD_55 (PDF, 393 KB) |
Contents: China?s Aircraft Carrier Dilemma China?s Power and Will Corruption and the Decline of the State in Pakistan Appetite for Construction Medical Diplomacy Civilian Contractors under Military Law Nonlethal Weapons and Noncombatant Immunity SF and the Art of Influence Assessing the Surge Color Blind |
| SOPD_54 (PDF, 357 KB) |
Contents: On the Clausewitz of the Cold War Towards an Explicative Understanding of Strategic Culture Cold Rush Russia Resurgent Russia and China: Converging Responses Climate Change, Mass Migration and the Military Response Illicit Activity and Proliferation Financial Warfare The Cult of the Insurgent Redesigning Land Forces for Wars Amongst the People |
| SOPD_53 (PDF, 322 KB) |
Contents: A World Without the West Iraq: The Way to Go The War as We Saw It The SCO and Iran Soldiering Ahead Intelligence Reform Jemaah Islamiyah According to PUPJI China's Military Space Strategy Artillery in Decline? Adapt or Die |
| SOPD_52 (PDF, 372 KB) |
Contents: The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers Securing Borders China's Rise in Historical Perspective A Friend Indeed A False Choice in Pakistan Counterterrorism: A Professional's Strategy The Role of Safe Havens in Islamist Terrorism Terrorism, Regime Change and Just War Good Anthropology, Bad History Knowing When to Salute |
| SOPD_51 (PDF, 563 KB) |
Contents: Beyond the Cloister Learning to Lose The Power Equation The Myth of the Invincible Terrorist Focused Operations Against Organized Crime Strategic Consequences of Radical Islamic Neofundamentalism Nuclear Enlightenment and Counterenlightenment The Muslim Middle East Climate Change and Security in Southern Asia Fourth Generation Warfare Evolves, Fifth Emerges China's ASEAN Invasion |
| SOPD_50 (PDF, 374 KB) |
Contents: Staying the Course Strengthening Security in Contemporary Afghanistan HUMINT-Centric Operations Preparing the US Marine Corps for Future Warfare Losing the Propaganda Wars Why Japan Will Not Go Nuclear (Yet) The Climate Engineers The Defence Debate in Australia and New Zealand Prime Time for Strategic Culture China: Security cooperation with reservations |
| SOPD_49 (PDF, 369 KB) |
Contents: Strategic Imperative Regular and Irregular Indigenous Forces for a Long Irregular War The Modern Seven Pillars of Iraq Security Lessons from the Israeli Trenches Getting it Wrong Understanding the Taliban and Insurgency in Afghanistan Toward a Horizon of Hope Speed Kills? Special Operations Forces a Strategic Resource Chinese Strategic Power |
| SOPD_48 (PDF, 341 KB) |
Contents: Armies in History, History in Armies The relevance of history to the military profession Thoughts on military history and the profession of arms The Value of the Study of Military History as Training for Command in War History as Institutional Memory The Lessons of History The Use and Abuse of History The Modern Model of the Battlefield Tour and Staff Ride Why Study Military History? Desert Storm and the Lessons of Learning The Place of Military History |
| SOPD_47 (PDF, 394 KB) |
Contents: The Wrong Surge Managing Iraq Waiting for Godot in Iraq Not Quite Counterinsurgency Confronting an Army Whose Men Love Death The Paradox of Logistics in Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies A Normative Code for the Long War Reforming the Military Schoolhouse What Next for NATO? Toy Soldiers: The Youth Factor in the War on Terror 'Uncle Ho Wants You! A Study of Viet Cong Motivation' The Rise of the Strategic Private: Technology, Control, and Change in a Network Enabled Military Asymmetry and Complexity |
| SOPD_046 (PDF, 490 KB) |
Contents: New Rules for New Enemies Learning About Counter-Insurgency Preventing Insurgencies after Major Combat Operations Negotiating with Terrorists Force Protection for the 'Hidden Wounds' of War Why Hawks Win For Poor Countries' Youth, Dashed Hopes Signal Danger Ahead Developing Cultural Understanding in Stability Operations 'Citizen Military Forces: Social Considerations' |
| SOPD_045 (PDF, 643 KB) |
Contents: The Next War of the World Synthesizing Worldwide Experiences in Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism (CIST) A Long War? Iraq Symposium: Iraq's Impact on the Future of US Foreign and Defence Policy Islam and the West: At the Crossroads Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism: Philippines US Civil Military Relations since 9/11 Company Command: Leading our Soldiers to Fight with Honor How We Fight "Civic Action' |
| SOPD_044 (PDF, 220 KB) |
Contents: Time to Move On in the Strategic Policy Debate What Were the Causes of 9/11? Averting Failure in Afghanistan Understanding Full Spectrum Operations: Insights from Operation Enduring Freedom Outfitting a Big-War Capability with Small-War Capabilities Canadian Special Operations Forces: Transforming Paradigms The US Military's Manpower Crisis Manning Priorities-Does the Army Have Them Right? The All-Volunteer Army: Can We Still Claim Success? An Urban Operations Training Capability for the Canadian Army Upping the Stakes: Demand Rises for New-Generation Tactical UAVs Marine Corps Equipment After Iraq Force Protection in Urban and Unconventional Environments |
| SOPD_043 (PDF, 218 KB) |
Contents: Making Strategy: Civil-Military Relations after Iraq Between Iraq and a Hard Place Regime Change Counterinsurgency Airpower Israel's Lebanese War Biotechnology and the Challenge of Arms Control Neutralizing Radical Islamism in the Southeast Asia Theatre Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more? 'British Counter-Insurgency Experience', June, 1965 |
| SOPD_042 (PDF, 227 KB) |
Contents: Countering Evolved Insurgent Networks "Twenty-Eight Articles": Fundamentals of Company-Level Counterinsurgency Cyber Mobilization: A Growing Counter-Insurgency Campaign A better war in Iraq: Learning counter-insurgency and making up for lost time Modernizing U.S. Counterinsurgency Practice: Rethinking Risk and Developing a National Strategy The hearts and minds myth: sorry, but winning means killing The Role of Perceptions and Political Reform in Counterinsurgency: The Case of Western Iraq, 2004-2005 Organising Intelligence for Counterinsurgency Producing Victory: Rethinking Conventional Forces in COIN Operations |
| SOPD_041 (PDF, 201 KB) |
Contents: The Afghan Model in Northern Iraq What Went Wrong with Iraqi Reconstruction Did We Over Americanise British Military Thought? Nexus of Future Conflict: The Crossroads of 'Three Block War' and 'Fourth Generation Warfare' Twenty-First Century Warfare - Twentieth Century Rules Coercive Counter-Proliferation and Escalation: Assessing the Iran Military Option Assessing Iraq's Sunni Arab Insurgency British Leaders and Irregular Warfare Stealing Al Qaeda's Playbook The Word of Command: Communication and Cohesion in the Military Doom and Demography Command and Control in a Networked Environment Has Futurism Failed? |
| SOPD_040 (PDF, 183 KB) |
Contents: The Role of Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Stabilization The Privatization of Security: Lessons from Iraq Procurement Reform in the US and Britain 'What Does China Want?' Terrorism: Global Insecurity or Global Hyperbole? Lessons Learned from Terrorist Investigation in the United Kingdom 'Knowing How and When to Cross the Street' There's More to Coalition Life Than Strategy and Tactics: Systemic Operational Design A Brigade Combat Team Commander's Perspective on Information Operations' British Counter-insurgency in History: A Useful Precedent?' |
| SOPD_039 (PDF, 185 KB) |
Contents: Is Strategic Geography Relevant to Australia's Current Defence Policy? Countering Aggressive Rising Powers: A Clash of Strategic Cultures Cyber-Mobilization: The New Lev?en Masse Stability Operations in Strategic Perspective: A Skeptical View Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq: Legal Ideals vs. Military Realities Saddam's Delusions: The View From the Inside Hunkering Down: A guide to the U.S. military's future in Iraq Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Allies, Airpower, and Modern Warfare: The Afghan Model in Afghanistan and Iraq |
| SOPD_038 (PDF, 170 KB) |
Contents: Planning Lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq The US Military After Iraq-A Speculation Educating for the Future Transforming Officer Distance Professional Military Education Professional Military Education: A Valuable Tool for Preparing for War Cultural Education and the Reading Program Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq Britain at War-From the Falklands to Iraq Defense Transformation and the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review Are We Ready for an Interagency Combat Command? |
| SOPD_037 (PDF, 240 KB) |
Contents: Seeing Baghdad, thinking Saigon Dude, where's my civil war? What the QDR should say Did the Pentagon get the Quadrennial Defense Review right? The United States and non-traditional wars Inter-agency operations: the Marine speciality of this century Air-ground integration Challenges of applying operational art in post-conflict Afghanistan The future of machine-human intelligence Patriot fratricides: the human dimension lessons of Operation Iraqi Freedom Technology: force multiplier for special operations What's next for nanotechnology The last exit from Iraq |
| SOPD_036 (PDF, 210 KB) |
Contents: The Platoon Raid: High-Intensity Urban Operations Changing to Precision Urban Operations No Silver Bullet 21st Century Rules of Engagement QDR's Crucial Question Much Ado about the QDR Japan's Defence: Basic Principles and New Initiatives A Report from the Front in Iraq In their own words: reading the Iraqi insurgency Measuring Success Contemporary Counterinsurgency Operations: History as a Guide to Assist in the Development of the Joint Interagency Task Force Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq The Future of Afghanistan |
| SOPD_035 (PDF, 175 KB) |
Contents: Future Warfare: The Rise of Hybrid Wars British Defence Policy and Doctrine: Expeditionary Operations in the Modern Era Gaining the Knowledge to Win Combat Health Support in the Army's First Stryker Brigade Countering Global Insurgency Changing the Army for Counterinsurgency Operations The New Political Reality of Pre-Emptive Defence Multinational Division Central-South Leveraging Actionable Intelligence A Time for War: Australia as a Military Power After the Fight: Inter-Agency Operations |
| SOPD_034 (PDF, 139 KB) |
Contents: In Support of the Military Decision-making Process: A Relevant Tactical Planning Tool for Today and Tomorrow The Law of War: The Rules have not Changed Revisiting Established Doctrine in an Age of Risk The Shape of Brigades to Come Fighting and Writing: Officers have a Duty to Communicate-in Print Route Ownership Versus Route Concession Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief Operations: Combined Support Group Operations in Sri Lanka |
| SOPD_033 (PDF, 306 KB) |
Contents: Boots on the Ground: The Impact of Stability Operations on the Armies That Must Conduct Them Campaign Design for Winning the War and the Peace Legal Opinion on the Status of Non-Combatants and Contractors under International Humanitarian Law and Australian Law Understanding Islamism Network-Enabled Battle Command Developing National Resilience The Road to Mission Command: The Genesis of a Command Philosophy The Lost Meaning of Strategy |
| SOPD_032 (PDF, 3.4 MB) |
Contents: War and Peace and the American Military Profession Civil-Military Operations Centre The British Army and Counterinsurgency: The Salience of Military Culture The Wrong Lesson Who are Americans to Think that Freedom is Theirs to Spread? Rethinking Military History |
| SOPD_031 (PDF, 1.8 MB) |
Contents: Rolling Thunder Iraq: Amidst Carnage Some Optimism The Trouble with History The Growing Prospects for Maritime Security Cooperation in Southeast Asia The Changing Nature of Jemaah Islamiyah The New World Order Rescuing the Law of War: A Way Forward in an Era of Global Terrorism |
| SOPD_030 (PDF, 390 KB) |
Contents: Rowell Seminar 2005 - Registration form The Real World War IV Anthropology and Counterinsurgency Intervention, Stabilisation and Transformation Operations: The Role of Land Power in the New Strategic Environment The Place of Management in Defence (and Defence Education) Cognitive Readiness in Network-Centric Operations Transformation Transforming UK Armed Forces Drawing Lessons from the Past: Historical Analysis of Stabilisation Operations Violent Beliefs Trapped in the Dead Ground: US Counterinsurgency Strategy in Iraq |
| SOPD_029 (PDF, 417 KB) |
Contents: Rowell Seminar 2005 - Registration form Military Cultural Education Urban Warfare: A Soldier's View From Here to There - A Strategic Planning Framework How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War? Who Won the Battle of Fallujah? The Guard and Reserve in America's New Missions From My Bookshelf Armour in Urban Terrain: The Critical Edge Iraq: Italian Lessons Learned |
| SOPD_028 (PDF, 165 KB) |
Contents: Terror's Source: The Ideology of Wahhabi-Salafism and its Consequences Leveraging the Media Making NEC Worthwhile How Technology Failed in Iraq Joint Fires and Effects in the Heavy Brigade Combat Team Nonlinear; Noncontiguous Operations and the Control of Indirect Fires and Close Air Support Bad News: Should Media Manipulation be a Tool of War? Just War Criteria and the New Face of War: Human Shields, Manufactured Martyrs and Little Boys with Stones The Problem with Fourth Generation War |
| SOPD_027 (PDF, 143 KB) |
Contents: Of Insurgency, Arab History and Militant Islam The Middle East and a Second-term Bush Administration The Fight for Kufa: Task Force 2-37 Armour Defeats al-Sadr's Militia Four Scenarios for Iraq Canada's Global Role: A Strategic Assessment of its Military Power Terrorism, Insurgency and the Military Response from South Armagh to Falluja From Bush I to Bush II: Plus ca change? Technical Developments and Effects-based Operations |
| SOPD_026 (PDF, 171 KB) |
Contents: Understanding Fourth-generation War Conflict Termination in Iraq Fallujah and the Future of Urban Operations Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars Unending War at the End of History Security in the Pacific Rim: A New Zealand Perspective Indonesia's Quiet Revolution The Need for New International Rules Individual Ambition: Creating the Need for Leadership Machines, the Military and Strategic Thought |
| SOPD_025 (PDF, 161 KB) |
Contents: Preface to a Theory of Strategic Intelligence Difficulties of International Intelligence Cooperation Precision Vs Brute Force in Weaponry Maritime Power in a Global Context Career Development, Job Rotation, and Professional Performance The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army Mapping the route of Leadership Education: Caution Ahead A Different Course? America and Europe in the 21st century Discourse of action: Command, Control, Conflict and the Effects Based Approach Psychological Profiling of Suicide Bombers |
| SOPD_024 (PDF, 155 KB) |
Contents: A Potential Vulnerability of Precision-Strike Warfare? Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities Preparing Leaders for Nationbuilding The Hollow Army Discussing the War on Terrorism and the Future of SF Redrawing the Map of the Future Plan of Attack America Unlimited: The Radical Sources of the Bush Doctrine The Terrorism to Come |
| SOPD_023 (PDF, 163 KB) |
Contents: Australia's Maritime Strategy The US Marine Corps and Distributed Operations: From the Sea Defence and the Universities in the 21st Century The Future of the US-Australian Alliance Clausewitz and Low-intensity Conflict Operation Iraqi Freedom & Challenges to Intelligence: Keeping Pace with the Revolution in Military Affairs USMC Snipers in Iraq Beyond Fallujah Semper Sensitive: the Marine's guide to Arab culture |
| SOPD_022 (PDF, 182 KB) |
Contents: The British Armed Forces - Which Way to Turn? Joint Doctrine - Engine of Change? More Than Technology is Needed to Win Wars The Army Profession: Ostrich or Phoenix? Deconstruction of Army Leadership Justifying War Perpetual Wars and the Future of Democracy The Modular Army Pilots Spurring Training, Tactics Revolution Lethal in the Littoral: A Smaller, Meaner LCS Redefining the Enemy |
| SOPD_021 (PDF, 197 KB) |
Contents: Field Artillery and Firepower Delivering Security in a Changing World: UK Defence White Paper 2003 The Law of War in the War on Terror Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq Planning : Major Combat and Restoration Operations Security: Shift to a Global Perspective The Risk of Optimism in the Conduct of War The UN's Evolving Postconflict Roles Feral Cities Sea Basing Isn't Just About the Sea |
| SOPD_020 (PDF, 170 KB) |
Contents: The Professional Edge War Reporting in the Television Age Education, Like Camouflage, Is Continuous Armour and Future Urban Warfare The End of Alliances? Coherent Joint Warfare is Our Silver Bullet Four Wars and Counting Fixing the Mix: How to Update the Army's Reserves Joint Professional Military Education |
| SOPD_019 (PDF, 179 KB) |
Contents: The Art of War The Battle of Taji and Battle Command On the Move Maritime and Expeditionary Dominance: Great Britain's Legacy to 21st Century Strategy Ten Ways Great Leaders Lead Joint is Dead: What is Next? The Need for a New Joint Warfare Profession Rethinking the Principles of War The Future of the Australian-US Security Relationship Book Review: 'Stray Voltage' |
| SOPD_018 (PDF, 160 KB) |
Contents: Transformation Towards Future Warfighting Digital Battle Command SF Officer Training for Adaptability Doctrine for Asymmetric Warfare Attack Helicopters in the Close Fight UAVs and the Dawn of Post-Modern Warfare An Alternative Future Force Task Organising Fire Support Teams Integrating SOF into Joint Warfighting |
| SOPD_017 (PDF, 257 KB) |
Contents: Just-in-Time Logistics Isn't Working Transforming the Legions Case Closed: Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden Strategy Revisited The Compulsive Empire Redefine Cooperative Security, Not Pre-emption Engaging Failed States Stumbling Into War |
| SOPD_016 (PDF, 264 KB) |
Contents: Special Forces and Close Air Support Combined Arms and MOUT The US Forces and Transformation Canada's Defence Problems The USMC and Battle of An Nasiriyah The Future of Land Warfare Close Air Support: A FAC's View The Military and the Media The US Army and Transformation |
| SOPD_015 (PDF, 296 KB) |
Contents: Ten Propositions About the Nature of War Supremacy by Stealth Integrating SOF into Joint Warfighting Modifying Tanks for the Urban Battle What is Power? Dragon in Paradise: China's Rising Star in Oceania Occupational Hazards: Myths of 1945 and US Iraq Policy Fighting Child Soldiers |
| SOPD_014 (PDF, 288 KB) |
Contents: Clausewitz, Globalisation and the Nature of War The New US War Machine US National Security Strategy and Geopresence Unorthodox Thoughts about Asymmetric Warfare Strategic Leader Readiness and Asymmetric Warfare The Protean Enemy The Ideology of American Empire Citizen Soldiers for the 21st Century |
| SOPD_013 (PDF, 317 KB) |
Contents: Rethinking the Defence of Australia Some Military Lessons from Iraq The Death of Strategy: Effects-Based Air Operations Sun Tzu and the War on Terrorism Factors of Conflict in the Early 21st Century Urban Warfare in the Information Age Fourth Generation Warfare Asymmetric Warfare: Martin van Creveld and Ralph Peters Revisited |
| SOPD_012 (PDF, 399 KB) |
Contents: Transformation or stagnation? Rethinking Australia's Defence Australia and the American Alliance The Military Lessons of Operation Iraqi Freedom Why the UN Security Council Failed The Responsibility to Protect Future War/Future Battlespace: The Strategic Role of American Landpower Winning Future Battles: Why the Infantry Must Change The Challenges of American Imperial Power |
| SOPD_011 (PDF, 400 KB) |
Contents: Bush's Middle East Vision After Saddam Post-War Iraq: Are We Ready? Understanding the New 'Effects-based' Air War in Iraq Transforming How We Fight: A Conceptual Approach Reserve Forces -The Nation's Insurance Policy: How the Conservatives Should Repair the Damage The Proper Role of Professional Military Advice in Contemporary Uses of Force Prevention, Not Preemption Force, Pre-emption and Legitimacy |
| SOPD_010 (PDF, 400 KB) |
Contents: One Year After 9/11: A Grand Strategy for the West? International Law and the Use of Force: Attacking Iraq Achieving Effect: UK Chief of Defence Staff Lecture Prevention, not Preemption The American Way of War Officership: The Professional Practice The Army Officer as Warfighter Effects-Based Decisions and Actions |
| SOPD_009 (PDF, 341 KB) |
Contents: The Case for Invading Iraq An Unnecessary War: Deterring Iraq The Bush Doctrine and War with Iraq The US Army in a Post-Conflict Iraq An Action Strategy for Iraq after Saddam Preemption and Regime Change The Middle East after Saddam Defeating Saddam Hussein's Strategy |
| SOPD_008 (PDF, 342 KB) |
Contents: Basic Principles of the Law of War Enabling Operational Manoeuvre From Strategic Distances America's Blind Faith in Military Technology The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism America's Imperial Ambition US Army White Paper, Concepts for the Objective Force The survivability of naval surface combatants in littoral warfare Has Warfare Changed? Rolling back Radical Islam Understanding Asymmetric Threats to the United States |
| SOPD_007 (PDF, 306 KB) |
Contents: ROEs US Army Transformation: A UK Perspective The USMC and Seabasing EBO Targets Ground Forces Getting Serious about Iraq Al-Quaeda: The Case of 'Ngruki Network' in Indonesia 'The Bush National Security Strategy: An Evaluation' 'Integrated warfighting: Toward a Joint Transformational Framework' |
| SOPD_006 (PDF, 358 KB) |
Contents: Is it Time to Abandon the MDMP? Anti-intellectualism in the US Army The USMC and Transformation Armour for Light Combat Vehicles Transformation Army Aviation and the Objective Force European Helicopters The Iraqi Quagmire Responding to Catastrophic Terrorism Al Qaeda Asymmetric Warfare Special Forces in Peacetime |
| SOPD_005 (PDF, 103 KB) |
Contents: Land Power and US Army Transformation Artillery and the Problem of Suppression Military lessons from Afghanistan The Future of Armour Towards a New American Way of War US-Australian Defence Co-operation Infantry Weapons Development Lessons from Kosovo Homeland Defence Network Centric Warfare Irregular Warfare and the Internet |
| SOPD_004 (PDF, 92 KB) |
Contents: South East Asia in the US War on Terrorism President Bush's Graduation Address to West Point Crusader, High-Intensity Combat and the US Army Coalitions, Expeditionary Warfare and Complex Operations Terrorism: Global, Strategic and Legal Issues Intervention and Australian Peace Operation Personnel Retention: US Perspectives |
| SOPD_003 (PDF, 111 KB) |
Contents: US Military Transformation and the Doctrine of Decisive Action Conceptual Basis of American Land Power Operational Manoeuvre The Future of Tanks and Infantry The Campaign in Afghanistan Peace Operations, Information Warfare and Asymmetry |
| SOPD_002 (PDF, 114 KB) |
Contents: Land Warfare in 2015 September 11 and the 'Fourth Generation Warfare' Debate Invading Iraq Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and the Future of Conflict Hart-Rudman and the US Military Transformation Homeland Security |
| SOPD_001 (PDF, 341 KB) |
Contents: The Chief of Army's Introduction Homeland Defence Urban Operations Professional Education and Force Transformation Military/Media Relations |