We are pleased to announce that Dr Michael Evans, coeditor of the Australian Army Journal and Head of the Land Warfare Studies Centre, has won the Hugh G. Nott Award for the best article published in the United States Naval War College Review for 2003. The Naval War College Review is one of the premier publications in the United States in the area of military strategy. The prize for the best article is awarded annually by the Naval War College Foundation in memory of Captain Hugh G. Nott, US Navy, who made major contributions to the academic and research life of the Naval War College over a period of ten years.
Dr Evans’s article, ‘From Kadesh to Kandahar: Military Theory and the Future of War’, was originally written as a paper for the 2002 Chief of Army Exercise. The article examines the transformation of military conflict since the end of the Cold War, focusing on the fragmentation of the international system, the diffusion of modes of conflict and the formulation of military theory. The article analyses contemporary ideas about warfare, the role of networks and the relationship between state-based conflict and societal security. Dr Evans also examines the growing void in clear distinctions between conventional and unconventional warfare, and makes a tentative analysis of battlespace conditions in 2015. The article is currently used in national security studies courses throughout the United States.
In his letter to Dr Evans, the President of the US Naval War College, Rear Admiral R. A. Route states:
It is my pleasure to inform you that your article in the Summer 2003 issue From Kadesh to Kandahar: Military Theory and the Future of War’ has been selected as the winner of the Hugh G. Nott Prize for the 2003 publishing year. The balance and analytical power of your article has cast valuable light on events since it was published. Our selection committee was unanimous in its choice as this year’s winner.
Dr Evans is the first winner of this prize in this country, and it is an honour for the Australian Army and for the Land Warfare Studies Centre that an Australian has won it.
Russell Parkin
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre
