Dec 2009, Vol. 154, No. 6
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Issue: Dec 2009, Vol. 154, No. 6
Douglas AlexanderAdapting Government for Stabilisation and Counter-insurgency Operations The Afghan campaign demands reform of government institutions back in Whitehall. Ultimately, however, success will depend on the quality of Afghan leadership
Andrew Rathmell
Whitehall 2British Civil-Military Integration: History and Next Steps Government and military have yet to create a truly comprehensive approach to operations. Creating cross-departmental frameworks will need a set of bold reforms
Daniel Korski
Marines Resting Helmand 2The Value of Doctrine: Assessing British Officers' Perspectives Do British officers on the front line understand their own doctrine and the wider mission? A new study suggests a surprising lack of awareness
Claudia Harvey and Mark Wilkinson
British MGReading Insurgencies: Review Feature Reviews of two key new works on counter-insurgency
David Richards and Robert Fry
ANA Soldier HeadThe Afghan National Army: Unwarranted Hope? Building up the Afghan Army is a crucial element of NATO stabilisation efforts. But this approach may be built on unsound assumptions
Antonio Giustozzi
StavridisNATO: Taking a Fix, Charting a Course The development of a new strategic concept is vital to NATO’s future: the Alliance should be confident in its role as a contributor to future international security
James Stavridis
Loner Soldier HeadThe End of Nuclear Sharing? US Nuclear Weapons in Europe The US still houses nuclear weapons in allied European non-nuclear states. The relevance of these weapons is now under question
Hugh Beach
Nuclear SubNuclear Policy at Sea: A Part-Time Deterrent Will Not Do! Credible deterrence remains the core of Britain's nuclear posture: further cutting resources for this would be self-defeating
Tim Hare
ChallengerStrategic Thinking for the Age of Austerity The winning entry in the 2009 Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize argues that Britain's future defence policy must look beyond counter-insurgency
David Blagden
Yemen Hizbullah PosterThe State of Yemen Yemen is less a failed state than a stillborn one. Focusing on the threat of Al-Qa’ida in Yemen ignores its economic and political context.
Alistair Harris and Michael Page
Gates in ArabiaSaudi Arabia's Strategy to Combat Terrorism: An Insider's Perspective Saudi Arabia pursues a dual strategy in the fight against terrorism. The West could learn from the security and rehabilitation programmes of the Kingdom
Naef Bin Ahmed Al-Saud
DDR at 40Revisiting the Wall With the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is time to revisit some of the myths in the commonly held narrative of the fall of Communism
Victor Sebestyen
Confederate BadgesThe Origins of the American Civil War The coming 150th anniversary of the American Civil War offers an opportunity to review the relationship between history and war
Brian Holden Reid
Italian WW2 BombersThe Bomber Offensive that Never Took Off: Italy's Regia Aeronautica in 1940 Despite in 1940 being one of the most powerful air forces in the world, the Regia Aeronautica ended up a wasted asset
A D Harvey
Reviews Reviews by Adam Cobb, Harsh Pant, Michael Howard, Hugh Berrington, Graham Dunlop and Christopher Elliott.

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