Land Power Forum | Australian Army Research Centre (AARC)

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.

	Articles
	Emerging Threats and Opportunities 2 March 2020 Emerging Threats and Opportunities
	Grapeshot and Grenadiers: Winning the Counter-Robot Battle 27 February 2020 Emerging Threats and OpportunitiesRobotics & Autonomous Systems
	Explosive weapons in populated areas: a humanitarian perspective ahead of a milestone report 25 February 2020 Urban conflict
	Emerging Threats and Opportunities 24 February 2020 Emerging Threats and Opportunities
	Pulling Forward the Future - Welcome to the Land Power Forum 2020 21 February 2020 Cognitive edge
	MakerSpaces in Army - a practical application 4 December 2019 Cognitive edgeMakerSpace	In our two previous blogs on MakerSpaces we have taken our readers through a look at the Maker philosophy and a review of its potential utility to the Australian Army.
	History and the Future of War: A Reflection 19 November 2019 Strategy	Observing how our past appeared when it was the future can help us understand why events occurred as they did, how individuals became prisoners of their experiences and missed what was blindingly obvious to later generations, and occasionally saw what was coming, only to be dismissed
	Devil’s Advocate: Divergent Thinking is Salvation 13 November 2019 Cognitive edge	Read 'Devil's Advocate: Divergent Thinking is Salvation' from 2019 CA Scholar Nick Bosio: "Army must focus on the problem: what to train, its balance with education, and who needs it most rather than focusing on how to train better."
	MakerSpaces in Army: Encouraging innovation through non-linear thinking 12 November 2019 Cognitive edgeMakerSpace
	Generating Joint Cyber Capability 6 November 2019 Cyber/space
	A Lightweight, Deployable Water Purifier 6 November 2019 Logistics
	Intelligent Systems in EOD 5 November 2019 Emerging Threats and Opportunities
	Indirect Machine Gunnery for the Motorised Battalion 5 November 2019 Land combat
	Getting an Army in Motion Moving 29 October 2019 Strategy
	Principally Right: Addressing the Challenge of Thinking 28 October 2019 Cognitive edge	“[I]f one is to understand ‘the great mystery’ one must study all its aspects, not just the dogmatic narrow view of the Jedi. If you wish to become a complete and wise leader, you must embrace a larger view of the force.”
	Crossing 2000 Kilometres of Death 17 September 2019 Strategy
	Part 2: Winning without Fighting – Information Environment Operations and Accelerated Warfare 13 September 2019 Cyber/space
	Part 1: Winning without Fighting –Information Environment Operations and Accelerated Warfare 12 September 2019 Cyber/space
	Soft Power Thoughts From The Marawi Crisis For An Evolving Threat Paradigm 11 September 2019 Cognitive edge	“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means… Should one then turn around the formula and say that politics is war pursued by other means? “ MICHEL FOUCAULT, 1976 ‘SOCIETY MUST BE DEFENDED’ [1]
	Seize, defy and discredit: a potent asymmetric strategy 10 September 2019 Land combat