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Bryan Dorn has completed a Master of Arts in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and is working for Army General Staff, Force Development, New Zealand Defence Force. Bryan has recently completed an array of Capability Concept Papers to support the New Zealand Army of 2015 and contributed to NZDF Force Development. He has also published a number of articles in the New Zealand International Review on North-East Asian issues. … Bryan …
Major Dave Fisher joined the Australian Army Reserve in 1991. After graduating from University of Queensland Regt in 1997 he was posted as a Troop Leader to 2/14 Light Horse (Queensland Mounted Infantry) when it was an integrated Regular/Reserve unit. He went to England in December 1998 and started parading with C (Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry) Squadron, Royal Yeomanry. In 2001, he transferred as a Captain to the Territorial Army and was deployed with the Squadron to Iraq on Operation TELIC 4 in January …
Major Justin Elwin graduated from the Royal Military College of Australia in 1995. He has seen regimental service in the 5/7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, including a tour of duty in East Timor. He has also served in training appointments at the Royal Military College of Australia and at the British Army Infantry Battle School including a short tour of duty in Iraq. Major Elwin is currently serving as a company commander in the 5/7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. … Justin …
Lieutenant Commander Chris Watson transferred to the RAN from the Royal Navy. A Principal Warfare Officer and ex–Cold War diplomat in the USSR and Poland, he has been XO of HMS IRON DUKE, First Lieutenant of the amphibious helicopter carrier HMS OCEAN and COMGIBMED’s J2 during the First Gulf War. He has contributed to IO policy, planning and operations for the US, UK, NATO, WEU and the ADF ranging in diversity from the Global War on Terror, West Africa, the Balkans, Iraq, East Timor, the Solomon Islands …
To the Editors In December of 2003, the Australian Army Journal (AAJ) editorialised that ‘the place of intellectual mastery in preparing armies for warfighting is now well established and Western military journals have often played a key role in shaping change’. It posed a series of questions linked to army personnel, education, training, force structure and how best to meet the challenges of the complex battlefield of the 21st-century. The AAJ has proven itself to be ‘the main forum for such an exchange …
Listed below is a selection from the review copies that have arrived at the Australian Army Journal . Reviews for many of these books can be found online in the relevant edition of the Australian Army Journal at: http://www.defence.gov.au/army/lwsc/Publications/journal/journal.htm Barefoot Soldier, Johnson Beharry, VC, Sphere, ISBN 9780751538793, 434pp. A Devil’s Triangle: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destructions and Rogue States, Peter Brookes, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0742549534, 272pp. A …
War Made New: Technology, Warfare and the Course of History 1500 to Today Written by: Max Boot, Gotham Books, New York, 2006, ISBN: 978-1592402229, 624 pp. Reviewed by: Antony Trentini, Visiting Fellow, Defence and Security Applications Research Centre. While it would seem, on the strength of the book’s title, that Max Boot would present an unbalanced and radical technological determinist argument with War Made New: Technology, Warfare and the Course of History 1500 to Today , he does not. Instead, …
An Introduction to the Causes of War: Patterns of Interstate Conflict from World War I to Iraq Written by: Greg Cashman and Leonard C. Robinson, Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, ISBN: 978-1538127780, 423pp. Reviewed by: Dr Gregory P. Gilbert, Senior Research Officer, Sea Power Centre – Australia The majority of people who contribute to Australia’s defence are more involved with their day to day activities than with the international relations theory and practice that underpins their …
Abstract Canadian author Gwynne Dyer was recently in Australia to promote his latest book The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq , which is available from Scribe Publishing. In an interview with the Australian Army Journal he discussed the issues raised in his new book, as well as the strategic concerns facing Australia today. Innumerable books have been written, pundits have held forth on what should and should not be done, and around the globe the television news each night brings the story of a …