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* This article is based on an address to the Socratic Forum on ‘Pre-emptive Wars: Legal? Ethical? In the National Interest?’ supported by the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, Brisbane, on 1 December 2003. The American doctrine of pre-emptive military action, outlined by President George W. Bush during 2002, is a realistic and morally justified response to dangerous, new security challenges in the 21st century. This article identifies two basic reasons for the rise of …
* The author would like to acknowledge the assistance of Dr Alden Klovdahl, School of Social Science, Australian National University, and Dr Carlo Kopp, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University in developing the ideas in this paper. In the 21st century, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) cannot afford to ignore the role that mimicry will play in contemporary conflict, particularly in unconventional or asymmetric warfare. This article argues that the Australian Army needs to …
Major General Stuart Graham, AO, DSO, OBE, MC (1920–96), served in the Australian Army for thirty-nine years. He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1938 and retired in 1977 as a major general. He distinguished himself in the Pacific theatre in World War II as a member of the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion and was awarded the Military Cross. In 1967, Major General Graham went to South Vietnam as Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force in Phuoc Tuy province. Major General Graham’s later …
Flight Sergeant Martin Andrew, Royal Australian Air Force, is an external studies student at the Australian Defence Force Academy, where he is writing a dissertation on the operational art of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. His postings include the Australian Joint Warfare Centre and the International Military Liaison Office in Darwin during Operations Warden and Tanager. Flight Sergeant Andrew was a 2002 Affiliate in Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, …
Major Robert Worswick is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He was posted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and saw operational service in Somalia. He has also served with the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Headquarters Australian Theatre and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation in the Middle East. While posted to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment he deployed as a member of the United Nations Transitional …
Captain G. A. Chisnall is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force School of Languages, where he studied Khmer. He served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, with the International Force in East Timor. Other postings include the 25th/49th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment and deployment as a battalion adviser in Sierra Leone with the International Military Advisory Training Team from August 2002 to March 2003. …
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Fortune served as a soldier in the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, before being selected for service in the Special Air Service Regiment. He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1989, and was posted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on graduation. He returned to the Special Air Service Regiment, was posted on exchange to the United States Special Forces in 1996, and assumed command of the 2nd Special Air Service Squadron on his return. A graduate …
John Carroll is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne and author of Terror: A Meditation on the Meaning of September 11. He has degrees in mathematics, economics and sociology from the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. Prof. Carroll is the author of numerous books, essays and articles, and delivered one of the Alfred Deakin lectures in 2001. His work focuses on modern Western society and, in particular, on the forces of social integration and disintegration. … John …