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Editorial Advice for Contributor Submissions Thank you for your interest in becoming an AARC author. We welcome your research, experience and distinctive viewpoints. As the Chief of Army’s lead agency for coordinating and publishing on the topic of Army land power, we offer an audience within a global network of world class contemporary strategic thinkers. These contributor guidelines are intended to assist you to prepare your written work for publication by the AARC. What Publications Interest you …
Colonel Eustace Graham Keogh was editor of the first Army Journal from 1948 to 1965. During this period he also produced the military history series commencing with his publication on the Shenandoah campaign. Many of these publications were researched and written and by Keogh himself and many survive as authoritative campaign guides today, testament to the quality of his work. Colonel Keogh died in 1981. … Eustace G. …
Captain Loma Todd joined the Army in 1983 as a Nursing Officer. She was initially posted to the 1st Military Hospital in Yeronga in Brisbane and then served in a variety of postings including Puckapunyal. Bonegilla. Canungra and Ingleburn. Captain Todd has also served overseas, on Exercise LONG LOOK, when she was posted to Aidershot in England and later, as a member of the United Nations Missions Assistance In Rwanda, the experience on which this article is based. She plans to leave the Army in 2002 and …
Captain Judith Spence is currently working as a Military Support Officer with the Defence Community Organisation in the Australian Capital Territory. She initially qualified as a Registered Nurse from the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane in 1980, then as a midwife from the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in 1984. She has a Masters Degree in Nursing from Flinders University, awarded in 1996. Captain Spence has nursed in various locations throughout Australia and the United Kingdom, and joined the Army as a …
Major Catherine McCullagh joined the Army in 1983 as an officer in the Royal Australian Army Educational Corps. She has served in a variety of locations both within Australia and overseas in Singapore and Malaysia. In 1998, she was posted to the Doctrine Centre as Staff Officer Grade Two Publishing, ascending to the lofty heights of editor of the then Combat Arms Journal and the Combat Services Support Journal. These publications were amalgamated into the Army Journal in 2000. Major McCullagh is currently …
Rob McClure is an ex-serving member of the Australian Army. His postings included the Australian Defence Force Academy, where he served from 1993-95 and 1 Command Support Unit, which saw him deployed to East Timor as part of the Communications Management Team from February to July 2000. He has spent time on the Gallipoli Peninsula and walked the Kokoda Track twice. He is currently a Federal Officer of the Australian Protective Service. … Robert …
Asymmetrical Warfare: Today’s Challenge to U.S. Military Power Written by: Roger W. Barnett, Brassey’s, Washington D.C., 2003, ISBN: , 182 pp. Reviewed by: Alan Ryan, Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre The concept of ‘asymmetry’ in conflict is one of the most abused buzzwords in the contemporary lexicon of warfare. It is most generally used to describe a situation where an adversary uses methods that avoid an opponent’s strengths while targeting their weaknesses. This definition is not …
Bush at War Written by: Bob Woodward, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2002, ISBN: , 376 pp. Reviewed by: Dr Alexandra Siddall, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade In Bush at War , Bob Woodward provides an informative and non-partisan account of the presidential decision-making process in the hundred days following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. During this period, the United States prepared for a war in Afghanistan against al-Qa’ida and the Taliban, took steps towards a pre-emptive strike …
The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare Written by Michael Russell Rip and James M. Hasik, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2002, ISBN: 9781557509734, 552 pp. Reviewed by: Major Russell Parkin, Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre This analysis of the precision revolution by Michael Russell Rip and James M. Hasik has been described by the leading scholar of American air power, Benjamin S. Lambeth, as ‘a sweeping survey of the technologies of precision navigation and …
