Michael Krause
Biography
Major General Michael Krause is a cavalry officer and has commanded 2nd Cavalry Regiment and 1st Brigade when it was the Army’s mechanised brigade. He has also served as an operational staff planner, both as the J5 at Headquarters Joint Operations Command and as the Chief of Staff Plans on Headquarters IJC in Afghanistan. He has served on operations in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Solomon Islands. He was the operations instructor at Australian Command and Staff College, and served as Military Advisor to the Deputy Chief of Army and Chief of Staff to the Vice Chief of Defence Force/Chief of Joint Operations. Since transferring to SERCAT 3 (Army Reserve) he has mentored for nine years on the Army’s senior tactics course, Combined Officers Advanced Course and Land Warfare Intermediate Course, and has mentored senior officers at the brigade level on major field exercises. He has contributed to Army and joint doctrine, including penning Campaigns and Operations and Decision Making and Planning Processes, the latter being the subject of this article.
(Last updated: October 2025)
