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Aug 2008, Vol. 153, No. 4
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Issue: Aug 2008, Vol. 153, No. 4
Letters John Mackinlay on the prospects of a UN armed force

NATOWhy NATO Should Return Home: The Case for a Twenty-First Century Alliance In the 1990s the transatlantic alliance fell victim to two moments of hubris. The first was the American unipolar moment, the second a severe bout of ‘European cosmopolitanism’.
Christopher Coker
ChinesemilitaryjpgInto the Future: The Rivalry of Major Powers An understanding of the diversity of future wars helps explain their potential range. There will be no one type of war, and thus no one way of waging or winning war.
Jeremy Black
justwarjpgJust Wars of the Future? Applying Just War Theory to Twenty-First Century Rogue Regimes How far does the Just War tradition offer a moral political analytical framework in determining when it is right to use force against ‘rogue regimes’?
Paul Schulte
Eurofighter formationBenefits and Bear Traps: The EU Defence Directive The ‘transatlantic technology gap’ has been common parlance in the defence world for a number of years.
Tim Williams
RAPTORjpgAddressing the Growing Importance of the 'Durand Line': A Role for RAPTOR? As security forces supporting the Afghani Government continue to advance, Afghan insurgents are steadily being evicted from their Provincial havens.
Paul Smyth
saudalfaisaljpgReconciling Israel's Core Requirements for Peace with the Arab Initiative The diplomatic activity surrounding the reintroduction of the Saudi Initiative is entirely different from the atmosphere when it was originally adopted.
Alon Ben-Meir
Delivering Submarine Capability: At Sea with HMS Tireless A photo-essay exploring the contributing elements to Britain’s submarine capability through a front-line view of the ‘Defence Lines of Development’
Gavin Ireland
land warfare conferenceThe Land Environment - Moving Towards 2018 The Chief of the General Staff of the British Army gives an indication as to the direction of travel for the British Army over the next ten years.
Richard Dannatt
bradleytankjpgThe Manoeuvre Warfare Fraud The concept of Manoeuvre Warfare as a response to perceived Warsaw Pact superiority, based its wide acceptance largely on ignorance and a lack of intellectual rigour.
William F Owen
stillwelljpgThe Longest Retreat: Burma 1942 Imagine the sort of rain that drops two feet of water in a month. It was through that sort of weather that, in May 1942, the exhausted survivors of the Burma Corps retreated.
Graham Dunlop
soviet_berlinjpgOn Absolute War Russia will not likely ever again be a ‘peer competitor’ with the United States – that role will fall to China and India – but, like the UK, it will remain a significant player on the world stage.
Chris Bellamy
Book Reviews Book reviews by Jeremy Greenstock, Ahmad Faruqui, Michael Clarke, Paul Moorcraft, Knox Chitiyo, John Kiszely and Frank Ledwidge

flemingjpgExhibition Reviews John Hughes-Wilson reviews ‘For Your Eyes Only’ – Ian Fleming and James Bond at the Imperial War Museum