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Discussions on the Conduct of War
 The Journal of Military Operations

Volume 3 / Issue 2 / Winter 2016

The Precision Engagement Gap

Gil Barndollar

Making The Big Headquarters Better

David Banks

The Operational: As Valid And As Dangerous As Any Other Abstraction

Steve Cornell

International Law and The Counterinsurgent’s Nightmare: A Sri Lankan Case Study

Nilanthan Niruthan

The Green Mountain Boys: Mentoring an Army from the Ground Up! The British Army & Afghan National Army (ANA) Experience 2006-15

Gerry Long

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Volume 3 / Issue 1 / Spring 2015

Organising Infantry Part 2: The Effect of the 1946 Infantry Conference on the Development of the US Army Squad

Gerry Long

An Omnipotent Abstraction: What Lessons Does The Falklands War Have for the Operational Level of War?

Steve Hart

The Practice of Operational Art by Small Militaries: Why and How

Aaron Jackson

Psychological Warfare: True Coercion, or a Byproduct that has yet to be Mastered?

Lee Il-Woo

The Russian ‘Colour Counterrevolution’ Model for Containing Geopolitical Expansion by the West

Ieva Bērziņa

Ten Years Observing Command And Control

Jim Storr

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Volume 2 / Issue 4 / Fall 2014

Russia’s New Generation Warfare in Ukraine: Implications for Defense Policy

Jānis Bērziņš

Tailored Force Requirements for Counterinsurgency Strategies

Matthew Williams

From Individual To Operational Initiative

Benoit Olie

Know Your Enemy

Cody Z.

Beyond Traffic Lights: Towards A More Complex Human Terrain

Jacob Stoil

Over the Beach: The Enduring Utility of Amphibious Operations

Cole Petersen

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Volume 2 / Issue 3 / Summer 2014

Operation ‘Defensive Pillar’ or The Second Gaza War: A Year Later

Eado Hecht

The Commander’s Toolbox - Use and Abuse of Battlefield Control Measures

Philip Stack

Norwegian Swarm: How Unique National Doctrines Contribute to a more Flexible NATO

Sebastian Langvad

Jihadist Use Of Technology

Paul Easter

Storming Back to the Future: Why We Wrestle With The Basics

Gerry Long

The Three Step Estimate

John Arthur

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Volume 2 / Issue 2 / Spring 2014

Commanding Officer’s Observations: Mentoring Task Force Three

The Commanding Officer of an Australian battle group in Afghanistan in 2011

Surrogate: Why Operational Art Adopted Strategy

Aaron Jackson

‘The Operational’ in the Information Age

Phillip Jones

Manned, Armoured, Reconnaissance: Why and How?

Jim Storr

‘The Enemy has a Vote’ and Other Dangers in Military Sense-Making

Ben Zweibelson

Thinking Fast and Slow for Soldiers

John Wilson

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Volume 2 / Issue 1 / Winter 2014

Does Operational Art Exist? Space, Time, and a Theory of Operational Art

Nathan W. Toronto

Out of Balance: Rebalancing Access and Overcoming Denial

Nathan Finney, Brett Friedman and Jon Klug

The Edge of Glory: The Western Way of Combat and the Search for the Elusive Decisive Battle in an Age of Terror

Gerry Long

The Tactics Gap: Why We Wrestle With The Basics

William F. Owen

Training Observations

Anonymous

The Killing of an Unknown Afghan Fighter in September 2011: A Breakdown in Battlefield Discipline

John Wilson

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Volume 1 / Issue 4 / Spring 2013

Where To For ‘The Operational’? An Answer.

John Kiszely

How Armor Units Adapted to the Urban COIN Mission in Baghdad

Kason Fark

Rhodesia: Lessons Learned

Peter Macdonald

Brains, Bullets and Flanks

Leo Murray

Influencing The Enemy Commander’s Behaviour

Anna Maria Brudenell

Three Short Pieces

Jim Storr

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Volume 1 / Issue 3 / Winter 2012

A Commander Reflects

Rupert Smith

Where to for ‘The Operational’

Justin Kelly

21st Century Operations and the Art of War Gaming

Kevin Benson and Colleagues

Wrong Technology for the Wrong Tactics: The Infantry Fighting Vehicle

William F. Owen

Are we a learning organisation? Preparing to meet the Challenge of the Adaptable Force?

Gerry Long

Understanding Command Approaches

Martin Samuels

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Volume 1 / Issue 2 / Fall 2012

Whither Armor?

Clint Ancker

Down The Tubes: A View on the Future of Field Guns Using United Kingdom Artillery as the Example

John Wilson

Blood and Water: The Present and Future of Amphibious Operations

Brett Friedman

Vehicle Movement in High Threat Environments

Mark Richards

Fight on Foot, Defeat on Foot

Jim Storr

Lessons From The Last War – Predicting The Next War

Eado Hecht

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Volume 1 / Issue 1 / Summer 2012

Building a hollow ANSF – Vietnam revisited?

Sergio Miller

Orde Wingate And Paramilitary Support Operations: Messages For The 21St Century

Simon Anglim

Positioning the Battalion Commander: the Advance and Pursuit from Awali to Beirut, 6-13 June, 1982

Doron Almog

The Operational Level Of War Does Not Exist

William F. Owen

The Continuing Relevance of Military Denial and Deception

Adam Elkus

A British Parachuting Capability?

David Benest

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Volume 3, Issue 2

The Precision Engagement Gap

Making The Big Headquarters Better

The Operational: As Valid And As Dangerous As Any Other Abstraction

International Law and The Counterinsurgent’s Nightmare: A Sri Lankan Case Study

The Green Mountain Boys: Mentoring an Army from the Ground Up! The British Army & Afghan National Army (ANA) Experience 2006-15

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