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Editorial
Credibility overboard again: The credibility of the Department of Defence is overboard again following information flow bungling over the allegations concerning Abu Ghraib prison
Commentary:
Debate on Australian commitment to Iraq balanced only by reciprocal flaws
Defence aspects of the 2004/05 federal budget effectively mean more gambling with our future
New trooplift helicopter decision is tied to question of LHD survivability
Subjective analogies between Iraq and Vietnam wars do not assist public debate
Real analogies between Iraq and Vietnam wars offer some lessons
Hypocrisy in much of the argument about interference in Australian domestic debate by the US
The National Party in New Zealand re-examines Kiwi nuclear shibboleths
Deficiencies in ADF bomb disposal capability
Articles:
The Government Perspective on Iraq by Prime Minister John Howard
The Labor Perspective on Iraq by Senator Chris Evans
Keeping the US Alliance in Perspective by Tony Parkinson
Papua New Guinea: On the Road to Nowhere or Somewhere by Mark Forbes
Reforming Our Intelligence Apparatus: The Human Factor Over the Institutional by Warren Reed
Archipelagic Manoeuvre Warfare for the ADF by Paul Hendley
Combined-arms Teams: Lessons From Iraq by T.E. Shaw
Reviews:
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie (reviewed by Commodore Jack McCaffrie, RAN (Retd))
On the Warpath: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce (Editors)
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
Krazy Hor: A Soldier's Story by Stan Krasnoff
(reviewed by Brigadier John Essex-Clark (Retd))
Redcoats to Cams: A History of Australian Infantry 1788 to 2001 by Ian Kuring
(reviewed by Neil James)
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot Cohen
(reviewed by Bill Deane)
Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Catastrophe by Professor Gavan McCormack (reviewed by Neil James)
Terrorism Explained: The Facts About Terrorism and Terrorist Groups by Clive Williams
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)
Living By The Sword: The Ethics of Armed Intervention by Dr Tom Frame
(reviewed by Neil James)