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Living by the Sword? The Ethics of Armed Intervention   Written by: Tom Frame, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2004,  ISBN: 9780868405193, 278pp. Reviewed by: Christian Enemark, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus admonished his disciple Peter: ‘All who live by the sword will die by the sword’. For centuries, theologians have debated what Jesus really meant by this statement in order to determine the moral status of those who engage in armed …

Globalisation and the New Terror: The Asia Pacific Dimension   Written by: David Martin Jones (ed.),  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK,2004,  ISBN: 9781845427771, xv + 316pp. Reviewed by: Michael Evans, Head of the Land Warfare Studies Centre and coeditor of the AAJ. The study of terrorism is a field that often lends itself to sensationalism and instant books based on breathless narrative and journalistic impression. None of these features characterises Globalisation and the New Terror . On the contrary, the …

Future Armies, Future Challenges: Land Warfare in the Information Age   Written by: Michael Evans, Russell Parkin and Alan Ryan (eds), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004, paperback, ISBN: 9781865086262, 370pp. Reviewed by: Professor Jeffrey Grey, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. There is an art to editing conference proceedings, which too often when published are less than the sum of their parts. They often date quickly, and it seems strange that, in the era of the Internet, …

Surprise, Security and the American Experience   Written by: John Lewis Gaddis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004, ISBN: 9780674011748, 150pp. Reviewed by: Russell Parkin, Senior Research Fellow at the Land Warfare Studies Centre and coeditor of the AAJ. At the end of the Cold War, the American scholar, Walter Russell Meade, wrote a book entitled Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World . A key thesis of Meade’s book was based on the identification of four …

Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age   Written by: Wayne Michael Hall, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2003, ISBN: 9781591143505, 219pp. Reviewed by: Michael Evans, Head of the Land Warfare Studies Centre and coeditor of the AAJ. In this interesting and stimulating study, author Wayne Michael Hall—a retired American brigadier general who directed the US Army’s Intelligence XXI study—argues that, because of the ascent of the digital age, the face of battle is rapidly changing. Increasingly, the …

Field Artillery and Firepower   Written by: Major General J. B. A. Bailey, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2004, ISBN: 9781591140290, 633pp. Reviewed by: Michael Evans, Head of the Land Warfare Studies Centre and coeditor of the AAJ. When this book was first published in 1989 by the then Major Jonathan Bailey of the Royal Artillery, it rapidly became known as the best single source on field artillery in the English language. Bailey’s brilliant study did for field artillery what Richard Simpkin’s work …

Dear Editors, While reading Lieutenant Colonel David Kilcullen’s interesting article ‘Combined Arms and the Close Battle in Complex Terrain’ in the December 2003 edition of the AAJ , I noticed a point that needs amplification. Lieutenant Colonel Kilcullen states, quite correctly, that British artillery pieces never entered Basra, although mortars were employed. He is right, but it should be noted that Basra lies along a waterway that is never more that about 7 km wide. Unlike infantry mortars, field guns …

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 …

Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steal, trans. M. Hofmann, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, 2003, 289pp. Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow , Ibooks, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2001, 324pp. Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War , Scribner, London, 2003, 260pp. Review Essay by: Russell Parkin Combat memoirs written by soldiers form a unique genre in the literature of war. Much military literature concentrates on the sweep of battle. Autobiographies of generals and other senior …

Professor Gunther E. Rothenberg (1923–2004) Editors’ Note: Professor Gunther E. Rothenberg, a distinguished international scholar of war, was a foundation member of the Australian Army Journal ( AAJ ) Editorial Advisory Board from February 2003 until his death in April 2004. As a tribute to Professor Rothenberg’s services to the journal, the AAJ is publishing the eulogy delivered at his funeral in Canberra on 29 April 2004 by Professor Peter Dennis. Eleanor has asked me to speak about Gunther’s life. How …