Author Archives: N.R. Jenzen-Jones
Big Boys Do Crye: MultiCam for Australia
By N.R. Jenzen-Jones Please note: a number of serving Australian Army officers and soldiers were interviewed for this piece. Their names have been withheld at their request. Last November the Minister for Defence Materiel, Jason Clare, announced that Australian troops operating in Afghanistan would be issued with Crye Precision MultiCam uniforms, following a successful trial. […]
Jumping The Gun: what does the AK-100 series really mean for Libya’s rebels?
By N.R. Jenzen-Jones This post originally appeared on the Lowy Institute’s blog The Interpreter. Stephanie Koorey’s piece on Libyan weapon supplies falls short of investigating properly the origin of many of the small arms seen in Libyan rebels’ arsenals. The star of Koorey’s piece – an ‘AK-100 series’ rifle shown in this Al Jazeera video clip – leads […]
The Rogue Adventurer 