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Contents
2 Foreword
3 Editorial
4 Secretary of the Cormorant Club
4 A Word from the new Director General of the UK Defence
Academy
5 A Message From the Secretary of State for Defence to the
graduates of ACSC 14
6 The Importance of Military Education during a Period of
Austerity
7 Cormorant Magazine Interviews Advanced Course Director
Brigadier Shaun Burley MBE
9 An Academic Perspective on the Strategic Defence and
Security Review
11 Front Line Command Capability Studies – A Civil Servant’s
View
12 ACSC Air Power Visit to RAF Waddington – A Land
Perspective
14 Maritime Combat Power Visit (MCPV)
16 ACSC Visit to the Land Combat Power Demonstration on
Salisbury Plain
22 Lifeworks: Specialist Support for The Armed Forces Community
24 Obituary: Professor Richard Holmes 26 RSE 1 Berlin – Das Zutrauen
28 RSE 1 The Czech Republic
29 RSE 1 Estonia
30 RSE 1 Rome
31 RSE 1 Poland
33 RSE 1 Budapest, Hungary 35 Trafalgar Night Dinner
36 Taranto Night Dinner 2010 The Ends, Ways and Means
37 Land Dinner
40 Dambusters’ Dinner
40 Defence Policy and Strategic Programming (DP&SP) – An
Industrial Perspective on ACSC
41 A Civilian Perspective on the ACSC or ‘How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love Clausewitz’
42 The Higher Command and Staff Course (HCSC) 2011
45 Combined Joint European Exercise (CJEX) at Shrivenham 46 CJEX Paris: The Art of Plannification
48 CJEX – Rome 2011
50 CJEX – Madrid 2011
51 CJEX at the Fürungsakadamie Bundeswehr – Hamburg 2011 54 A Master Class in Navigating the United States Military
56 The State of Strategy
57 OP ELLAMY: Libya and the Just War Tradition
58 ACSC 14, the ‘Arab Spring’ and the Libyan Conflict
59 International Ladies Visit to the Houses of Parliament and
Westminster Abbey
60 Plagiarists in Demand at JSCSC!
61 ACSC 14 Sports Day
61 The ACSC 14 Cricket Challenge – The Foster’s Cup 62 Defence Academy Hockey Club 2010–11
63 The Tough Guy Challenge
63 Or the “Tough Stupid Guys”
64 Defence Academy Rugby Season 2010–11
66 An International Perspective of ACSC 14
67 International Families Day 2010
70 Veterans’ Aid
71 The ACSC 14 ‘Charioteers’
72 Realities of Conflict
72 The Purple Ball 2011
74 Exercise Cormorant Finale
Normandy – a Non-Western
Perspective
77 Wot! No Engines? A Personal
Recollection of the use of Gliders in
World War II
78 An International’s Guide to
Pantomime
79 ACSC 14 Prize Winners 2011
Five articles specially commissioned for the Cormorant Magazine from visiting ACSC lecturers
17 The United Nations: A Story Oft Untold
18 Mayhem in the Mediterranean: Three Strategic Lessons for
Europe
19 Pashtunwali and the Pashtuns
20 Indian Foreign Policy
21 Can NATO and Russia ever truly cooperate? The case of
counternarcotics in Afghanistan
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