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Current edition
Summer 2012, Volume IX, Number 3
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Contents
EDITORIAL
POINT BLANK
An Interview with Lieutenant General (Retired) Francis Hickling
An Interview with Warrant Officer Kevin Woods
CAPABILITY
Unarmed Combat in the ADF: “The Next Evolution”
Warrant Officer Class Two Eddie Walsh
Is Parachute Capability Still Relevant to Modern Expeditionary Operations?
Major Paul Scanlan
Train Better, Fight Best
Major Ben McLennan
Knife, Can Opener or Screwdriver? Training Australia’s Land Force to be the Swiss Army Knife of the Future
Allison Casey
DECISION-MAKING
Decision-Making at the Tactical Level
Captain Scott Holmes
Understanding and Defeating a Complex Adaptive System
Lieutenant Colonel Ian Langford
Individual Decision-Making in Complex Environments
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Say and Lieutenant Colonel Ben Pronk
PLANNING
On the Preposterousness of ‘Population-Centricity’
Lieutenant Colonel Nick Floyd
Fighting China: Airsea Battle and Australia
Justin Kelly
BOOK REVIEWS
A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia by Aaron L Friedberg
Reviewed by Dr Michael Lankowski
The Ashgate Research Companion to War: Origins and Prevention by Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobteff (eds)
Reviewed by Dr David Connery
Fighting to the Finish: the Australian Army and the Vietnam War, 1968–1975 by Ashley Ekins and Ian McNeill
Reviewed by Thomas Richardson
Australia and Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy and the Origins of World War II by Christopher Waters
Reviewed by Augustine Meaher PhD
Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict by Boaz Atzili
Reviewed by Ryan D Griffiths
The Hard Slog: Australians in the Bougainville Campaign, 1944–45 by Karl James
Reviewed by Charles D Melson
Conducting Counterinsurgency: Reconstruction Task Force 4 in Afghanistan by David Connery, David Cran and David Evered
Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Chris Smith
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century by Dennis J Blasko
Reviewed by Dr Jingdong Yuan
Then Came the Fire—Personal Accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001 by Stephen J Lofgren (ed)
Review by Colonel (Retd) Mike Lovell
MILESTONES
In Memoriam - Alan Bishop Stretton (1922–2012)
In Memoriam - Major General Cedric Maudsley Ingram 'Sandy' Pearson AO, DSO, OBE, MC (1918–2012)
TITLES TO NOTE