Preface / Malcolm H. Murfett -- Castiing doubt on the inevitability syndrome / Malcolm H. Murfett -- The unknown and the unknowable : the loss of HMAS Sydney / Peter J. Dennis -- The madness of General George / Daniel K.R. Crosswell -- What do they want and how can we respond? : Commonwealth intelligence and confrontation with Indonesia, 1963 / Brian P. Farrell -- Air power finds its ascendancy at last / Christopher Clark -- Three of a kind? : Fisher, Rickover, and Gorshkov and the management of naval change / Geoffrey Till -- Measuring defeat : imponderables of the American experience in Vietnam / Ronald Spector -- What's luck got to do with it? : random elements that affected the naval campaigns of 1939-45 / Malcolm H. Murfett.