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Dr Ellen Bloxsome is a Research Officer in the Directorate of People Intelligence and Research. She contributes to the YourSay Workplace Experience survey and knowledge translation projects. Ellen holds degrees in Sociology and Business and maintains ongoing research interests in image transfer, reputation management and news values. … Ellen …

Communications and Leadership on the Same Page   Air University Press , 2020, 148 pp, Open Access Written By : Tom Jurkowsky Reviewed By : Ellen Bloxsome The Secret Sauce for Organizational Success: Communications and Leadership on the Same Page is a text about military and organisational public affairs that reads like a fireside chat or a collection of ‘warries’. [1] The author, Rear Admiral Tom Jurkowsky (Retd.), served in United States’ Navy as a public affairs’ specialist and later held a number of …

The Chief of Army Essay Competition and Chauvel Prize 2026 Chief of Army Essay Competition   The release of the Defence Strategic Review (2023) and the National Defence Strategy (2024) has presented a new focus and a new set of challenges for the Australian Defence Force (ADF), and the Army in particular. After 25 years of peacekeeping and low-intensity conflict, the Army needs to prepare for high-intensity conflict, most likely in a changing littoral environment The theme of the 2026 Chauvel Prize is …

A Very Short Introduction   Oxford University Press, 2 nd edition, 2024, 133 pp Paperback ISBN: 9780197760154 AUTHOR: Antulio J Echevarria II REVIEWED BY: Jordan Beavis The sheer breadth and depth of scholarship available on military strategy is overwhelming. For centuries scholars and practitioners have debated what military strategy is, how strategies can be categorised, and the factors that can lead to the success or failure of a strategy. This is not to mention the mass of literature dedicated to case …

Major Dale Morley-Turnbull enlisted into the Army Reserve in 1990 while studying at university, she graduated from the Regional Universities Regiment - Queensland in March 1993 as a Second Lieutenant, allocated to the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police and posted to the 25th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment as Assistant Adjutant.   MAJ Morley-Turnbull has been posted to a variety of postings during her reserve service including Platoon Commander 14 MP Platoon, 1 Military Police Company, the …

Abstract On the surface, the ‘zero tolerance’ policy of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) on substance abuse appears to be overbearing and paternalistic—out of step and out of touch in an age when individuals feel that they should be able to make informed decisions about what they do and what substances they put in their bodies. Examination of media releases, official statements, policies and freedom of information documents available through Defence or in open media in relation to drug use in the …

The 1945 Borneo campaign, conducted by the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions of I Australian Corps, was the largest ever planned and conducted by Australia’s armed forces. It involved Allied amphibious assaults against the forces of Imperial Japan at Tarakan (OBOE 1) and Balikpapan (OBOE 2) in Indonesia, and Brunei Bay (OBOE 6) in Malaysia and Brunei. In the case of OBOE 6, the two large-scale amphibious landings on Labuan and the shores of Brunei Bay were quickly followed by three battalion-group …

  Macmillan Australia , 2021, 336 pp RRP: $36.99 Paperback ISBN 9781760983499 Written By : Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk and Tim Curtis Reviewed By : Darren Cronshaw   The Resilience Shield is a book written by three former Australian special forces soldiers that urges readers to build resilience by focusing on six interrelated layers. [1] The book’s underpinning proposition is that the best time to develop a so-called ‘resilience shield’ is before crises so that compounding stressors do not get the better of us. I …

Mr Michael Webster is a practising lawyer, former active-service military officer, and a geolegal strategist. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Australian Regular Army after twenty years as a legal officer. He had operational service in Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific regions. He has degrees in business, education, history, and the law. He is currently studying at the National Security  College in Canberra. His research interests include intellectual warfare, legal warfare, Australian …

Debating the Australian Army Profession In the long history of the Australian Army, there has been no significant, holistic study of the Australian Army profession, past, present or future. [1] This is an awkward statement in an introductory article to a special themed edition of the Australian Army Journal (AAJ), a publication which for 10 years (2003–2013) bore on its title page the phrase ‘For the Profession of Arms’. [2] It is rendered all the more uncomfortable by recalling that the army profession …