Letters

REVIEW ESSAY:: Counter-Insurgency: The US-UK Tensions

There is likelihood of a serious disparity of approach between the US and the UK with much greater conviction than the partially suppressed rumours from Whitehall.

Shan Hackett: The Pursuit of Exactitude

‘A Petty Rough do Altogether’:The Fifth Fusiliers in Korea - 1950-1951

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA

Democracy and Military Force

Strategic Preemption: US Foreign Policy and the Second Iraq War

The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order

The New Mandarins: How British Foreign Policy Works

Who Killed Cetshwayo? A Case Study of Ethical Foreign Policy

E H Carr famously argued in his work What is History? That history is the study of causes, that events have multi-causal explanations and that there is always a hierarchy of causes rather than a randomly jumbled set of events.

Israel Defence Forces Organizational Changes in an Era of Budgetary Cutbacks

Rather than being revolutionary, changes to the IDF security doctrine, have been reactive in the sense that most of the changes the IDF is currently deciding to implement have been forced upon it mostly due to large budgetary cuts.

Meeting the Iranian Nuclear Challenge

Is the threat of UN-imposed economic sanctions on an oil-dependent country, widely regarded as the most effective way of bringing the nuclear programme to heel, really the only way of meeting the Iranian challenge?

On Budget and Ahead of Programme: The Redevelopment of the MoD Main Building

The delivery of the redeveloped building on budget and ahead of programme is testament to the success of the PFI approach.

PHOTO ESSAY: Portrait of a Company Part I: Pre-deployment training in Germany

Transformation and the Future of Berlin Plus

The lesson of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom is that transformational thinking in future peace support, reconstruction and counter-insurgency capabilities will be as valued as precision strike.

What is Best in the Regimental System?

The British Army has at various times stated that it intends to preserve that which is best in the regimental system as part of any organizational and structural changes that might occur in the future

Technical Development and Effects Based Operations

An assessment on the legacy of Lord Trenchard -- founding chief of the RAF -- on current air power operations

Terrorism, Insurgency and the Military Response from South Armagh to Falluja

Parallels with the British experiences in Northern Ireland and Iraq can be drawn, and indeed British experience of counter-insurgency has been very useful. However, it must be remembered that there are many differences in the two conflicts.

Conflict Termination in Iraq

The military conflict in Iraq has not ended; it has simply transformed from a more traditional ‘state versus state’ conflict into a multi-layered struggle involving many different protagonists.

Security in Iraq

An assessment of the present security situation and argues that there is a very poor prospect that it will get better in the near future from the UK's former special representative to Iraq