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Issue: Oct 2004, Vol. 149, No. 5

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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
Sir Jeremy Greenstock

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.
Christopher Tuck

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.
Conor O'Niell

Technical Development and Effects Based Operations An assessment on the legacy of Lord Trenchard -- founding chief of the RAF -- on current air power operations
Brian Burridge

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
Alistair Irwin

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.
James Bergeron

PHOTO ESSAY: Portrait of a Company Part I: Pre-deployment training in Germany Photographs by Susan Schulman

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.
Richard Hatfield

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?
Roger Howard

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.
Sergio Catignani

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.
Damian O’Connor

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.
John Mackinlay

Letters

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA Richard English

Democracy and Military Force Philip Everts

Shan Hackett: The Pursuit of Exactitude Roy Fullick

Strategic Preemption: US Foreign Policy and the Second Iraq War Robert J. Pauly Jr and Tom Lansford

The New Mandarins: How British Foreign Policy Works Jonathan Eyal

The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order Colin S. Gray

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