Chris Field

Biography

Major General Field is Deputy Commanding General, Operations, US Army Central / Third US Army. He has commanded at all levels from platoon to the 36,000-person Australian Army Forces Command.

His deployments include Afghanistan, East Timor, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, Syria and Queensland State recovery. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College and a graduate of the Centre for Defence & Strategic Studies, US Army Land Component Commander Course, Australian Commander Joint Task Force Course, Australian Institute of Company Directors, US Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting, RMC Duntroon, and Australian Defence Force Academy.

Contributions

Title	Date Published
Enabling Army Innovation	14 Jul 2016
The canon and four generations of warfare	20 Oct 2016
Three Cs - Planning Observations from Exercise Hamel 2016	17 Apr 2017
The Canon and Four Generations of Warfare – Part 2	22 Jun 2017
The Canon and Four Generations of Warfare – Part 3	2 Jul 2017
The Canon and Four Generations of Warfare – Part 4	13 Oct 2017
Accelerated Warfare – Four Imperatives for Change	20 Feb 2019
Testing the Tenets of Manoeuvre: Australia’s First Amphibious Assault since Gallipoli The 9th Australian Division at Lae, 4–16 September 1943	13 Dec 2019
Asymmetric Warfare and Australian National Asymmetric Advantages: Taking the Fight to the Enemy	13 Dec 2019
Three Block Community Support: An Australian Defence Force Capability	30 Mar 2021
The Fifth-Generation Australian Army	12 Nov 2021
Fifth Generation Army – Leadership and Ethics in 2040	15 Nov 2021