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Occasional Paper 24: Small Aircraft, Sizeable Threats

Small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) are widely available, militarily effective and challenging to defeat. In this Occasional Paper on counter-sUAS, Dr. Carl Rhodes reviews the recent employment of sUAS and evaluates methods to sense and engage these systems.

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Australian Army Journal Volume 20 Number 1

In his introduction, Deputy Chief of Army notes that this issue of the Australian Army Journal includes articles, speeches and book reviews covering land warfare, theoretical concepts for how Army might respond to changes to warfare and lessons for strategic thinking. These provide alternative points of focus, new thinking and optimism as Army continues to implement directions from the Defence Strategic Review.

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The ‘Adapting Army’ podcast invites visionary leaders from Army, Defence, industry and academia to share their stories and insights to explore how Army can adapt through people, partnerships, and innovation. Join us as we examine how Army can drive change, harness disruptive technology, and take advantage of the exciting possibilities that will shape our preparedness and capabilities to meet the challenges ahead.

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Urban Warfare: A Practitioner’s Annotated Bibliography

'Urban Warfare – A Practitioners Annotated Bibliography’ provides access to a wealth of resources about urban warfare to military practitioners. In it, the AARC has collated over 500 papers, articles and reports on the topic of urban warfare. Each resource listed in the bibliography is directly or indirectly, accessible online, including many examples that would not otherwise be readily located using online search engines.

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Army Research Scheme 2024

The Army Research Scheme for 2024 is now open.
Independent researchers and research organisations are invited to register to be part of the Army Research Network that will group researchers/organisations in their speciality under the broad scope of Army’s interests being State of the Australian Army Profession, Mobilisation, Littoral Manoeuvre, Quantum, Autonomy and Counter Autonomy.

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Strategic Analysis

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Strategic Assessment (Quarter 1, 2023)

This Strategic Assessment provides insights into the global supply chain issues that will shape Defence’s ability to maintain adequate war stocks of strike weapons. It discusses the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Western stockpiles, the diversification of rare earth processing and the increasing pressure on Western militaries to secure their stockpiles of strike weapons. These topics have been emphasised on the basis of their significance to long-term strategic decision making, the formation of narratives, and their potential influence on capability development and the future force outlined in the 2023 Defence Strategic Review (DSR).
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Spotlight Brief 3/22

This Spotlight Brief examines Russia’s combined-arms approach during its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. To provide context, it discusses the primary Russian tactical unit of action, the Battalion Tactical Group. It subsequently explores a range of observations on the application of combined-arms at the tactical level during the initial phases of the invasion. It concludes by offering a number of deductions pertinent to the Australian Army’s own application of combined-arms.
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Spotlight Brief 2/22

This Spotlight Brief describes the events of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. This analysis is in three parts: first, it examines the broad composition of the Russian and Ukrainian Armed Forces; second, it discusses the first phase of the invasion from February-April outlining the major operational level actions; and third, it discusses the invasion’s second phase covering the April-June period.

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Small Aircraft, Sizeable Threats

Small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) are widely available, militarily effective and challenging to defeat. In this Occasional Paper on counter-sUAS, Dr. Carl Rhodes reviews the recent employment of sUAS and evaluates methods to sense and engage these systems.
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Volume 20 Number 1

In his introduction, Deputy Chief of Army notes that this issue of the Australian Army Journal includes articles, speeches and book reviews covering land warfare, theoretical concepts for how Army might respond to changes to warfare and lessons for strategic thinking. These provide alternative points of focus, new thinking and optimism as Army continues to implement directions from the Defence Strategic Review.

Accelerated Preparedness

The term ‘scalability’ is in widespread usage both inside and outside of Defence. However, there is a lack of a coherent conceptual, theoretical and practical framework for practitioners. In this Occasional Paper, author Dr Renée Kidson provides the foundation knowledge necessary to start the scalability journey, whether your business is warfighting, leading a public agency, turning a profit or running a charity.
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    Land Power Forum

    The Land Power Forum blog is published by the Australian Army Research Centre in order to generate discussion and debate about the future of Army.

    It is a forum for informed analysis, commentary, thoughts and ideas. Contributions are welcomed from stakeholders, subject matter experts and those interested in future land warfare.

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    RICO

    The Robotic and Autonomous Systems Implementation & Coordination Office (RICO) explores, coordinates, and develops disruptive technology that equips Army to be Future Ready.

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