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The Australian Army Research Centre has supported research into a variety of areas over a number of years.

Not all research relates to Army’s future warfare.

This section contains all those reports that are not contained in the Occasional Papers.

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Exploring Australian Sovereign Capability to Scale up in Critical Times

18 December 2020 This study examines Australia’s sovereign industrial capability to scale up for war and other critical events such as the Australian bushfires and the COVID-19 global pandemic. Additionally, it determines whether Australia has the potential to leverage its existing capabilities and redirect defence-adjacent capabilities into areas of need in the future.
Cover of Army Research Paper_ The Australian Army in the Urban, Networked Littoral

The Australian Army in the Urban, Networked Littoral

14 November 2019 This paper explores the urban, networked littoral and proposes concepts for control operations in this setting. The ensuing discussion considers in turn the environment, missions and threats, the operational response, and capability implications.
evolving intellectual edge

Professional Military Education Strategy

22 November 2017 The Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, AO, DSC, has now endorsed a new Professional Military Education (PME) Strategy for Army.  This Strategy lays out the argument for an intellectual edge, and then directs the ends, ways and means that will be used to achieve it. 22 November 2017 ‘In April 2016 the Chief of the Australian Army commissioned the Ryan Review, a root and branch review of Army’s education, training and doctrine system. The Review concluded that the Australian Army faced a problem.  The character of warfare was changing, and that professional…
Expeditionary warfare and military

Expeditionary warfare and military operations under a maritime strategy

01 August 2015 In this research paper, Lieutenant Colonel D.J. Beaumont argues that Army must inculcate interpretations of expeditionary warfare based on Australia's historical, geostrategic and organisational influences into its conceptual development.
Australian Special Operations

Australian Special Operations: Principles and Considerations

01 October 2014 This paper seeks to aid military planners by explaining the principles and considerations for the employment of Australian Special Forces
PTSD and Stigma in the Australian Army

PTSD and Stigma in the Australian Army

01 October 2014 De-stigmatising is not only important for the individual, but also critical for the Australian Army. This paper analyses Canadian, British and US initiatives and provides key recommendations to the Australian Army on how to combat stigma.
The Third Way

The Third Way: Towards an Australian Maritime Strategy for the Twenty-first Century

01 May 2014 This paper argues that, despite being the world’s largest island, the greatest paradox of Australia’s existence is that the country lacks a maritime consciousness to guide defence policy. National development has been marked by several historical characteristics which have created an ingrained culture of sea-blindness
Joint Employment

Preparing the Australian Army for joint employment

01 January 2007 This paper is a history of record and an analysis of the contribution of the Adaptive Army initiative to the self-reliant military force projection that underpins Australia's sovereignty - the Australian Defence Force's main game.
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