
2025 CA Reading List
The Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) has been directed to publish the 2025 CA Reading List in accordance with the Army PME Plan.
The AARC is rapidly preparing the List for approval and publication.
Communication around the release of the List will be promulgated by Army in due course.

The 2025 Chief of Army Essay Competition is now live!
The 2025 Chief of Army Essay Competition is now open. Army awards the winner of the Competition the Chauvel Prize, named in honour of General Sir Henry George (Harry) Chauvel, GCMG, KCB, and we publish the winning entry in the Australian Army Journal.
The Australian Army runs essay competitions to encourage writing on land warfare and joint operations. These competitions also develop and maintain the intellectual component of combat power.

Australian Army Journal Volume 20 Number 3
Mobilisation requires a multi-disciplinary debate from civil and military security practitioners. The latest edition of the Australian Army Journal, with an introduction by Hannah Woodford-Smith, features perspectives drawn from Australia’s historical and contemporary operational experience.

Occasional Paper 27: Spontaneous Volunteers: The Applied History of Domestic Operations
The role of the military in domestic operations is one of the most vexing issues in a democracy, made complex by a lack of historical work. This occasional paper offers the first definitive history of all instances of call outs in Australia since 1901, in order to provide a left and right of arc for contemporary policy and operational thresholds.

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