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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 …
The Lion, The Fox and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia Written by: Carol Off, Random House, Toronto, 2000, ISBN: 9780679311386, 406 pp. Reviewed by: Alan Ryan, Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre This extraordinary book examines the disastrous peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Rwanda, and it does so by analysing the role played in these disasters by three senior Canadians. The Lion of the title is Major General Romeo Dallaire, the commander of the …
The Strategists Written by: Hugh Smith (ed.), Australian Defence Studies Centre, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 2001, ISBN: 9780731704538, 145 pp. Reviewed by: Martin Sheehan, Strategic and International Policy Division, Department of Defence In 1989 Francis Fukuyama, then Deputy Director of the US State Department’s policy planning staff, published a curious essay, ‘The End of History?’ in the journal The National Interest . Fukuyama’s argument was that, …
Introduction The Retrospect section of the AAJ is designed to reproduce interesting articles from the Australian Army’s earlier journals, notably the Commonwealth Military Journal and the Australian Army Journal ( AAJ ) from the 1940s to the mid 1970s. In this edition of the new AAJ , we are reprinting an edited version of an article by Field Marshal Sir William Joseph Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC (afterwards 1st Viscount Slim), then Governor-General of Australia. This article appeared in the …
Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Eddington Rhoden, OBE, ED (Retd) (1914-2003) Reflecting on the 2/14th Battalion’s attack at Manggar Airfield as part of the Balikpapan operations in July 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Phillip ‘Phil’ Rhoden recalled that he refused to ‘rush in’, despite pressure from his superiors to do so. Instead, he bided his time, concentrated his battalion and progressively seized limited objectives, employing his considerable fire support to full effect. It was a strategy designed to save lives, …