Search
Using the filters to the left, click your selection, it will become bold and filter the results, click it again to remove that filter.
Anjali Shekhawat is a Senior Research Associate at CUTS International. … Anjali Shekhawat …
Commander Greg Swinden joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1985 as a maritime logistics officer. He served in a variety of ships and on operations in East Timor, the Solomon Islands, Arabian Gulf and Afghanistan. He has written a number of books and articles concerning Australia’s naval history. Greg resides in Canberra with his wife and three children. … Greg …
Luisa Powell is the Director of the Australian Army Research Centre (AARC), providing strategic research leadership, engagement across academic and Defence, and oversight of publishing the Australian Army Journal , Occasional Papers, and Land Power Forum. Prior to 2025, she was Director Research at the AARC (2023-2024) working collaboratively in a diarchy to lead the AARC. As Acting Director to the Office of Industry Innovation and Science Australia (OIISA), an independent statutory body providing …
The AARC seminar series consisted of presentations on a variety of topics relating to land power. The aim was to encourage intellectual development and thinking. The seminars provided an opportunity for debate and discussion. Invited speakers were drawn from a range of subject matter experts within the academic, scientific, international security and defence communities as well as military practitioners. … Seminar …
During the latter months of 2019 and the new year of 2020, Australia experienced catastrophic and widespread bushfires. As the situation worsened, the federal government unexpectedly called out the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Reserves to bolster an already significant deployment of ADF regular forces to contribute to a massive interagency and volunteer community response. This deployment was the largest ever peacetime domestic ADF operation in response to a natural disaster. The ADF responding to …
Army MakerSpace About MakerSpace Makerspace is an Army initiative providing a place for learning-by-making and education in innovative approaches, creative thinking, and agile methodologies. All Army personnel are invited to join their local community of makers to gain a professional toolbox of problem-solving techniques to tackle Army’s current and emerging challenges. Makerspace is part of The Battle Lab within Army G7/Forces Command and contributes to realising a Future Ready workforce Locations The …
One of the three pillars of the Australian Army profession is its jurisdiction, [1] a concept which defines the space in which expert military knowledge is applied. It is easy to think of this space as having only operational area or legal boundaries, but the current organisational construct adds a cultural jurisdiction where the Army’s authority to act is also tied to a discrete military identity. The Army has become a deeply nested organisation within the Defence enterprise; the fulltime Army …
The ADF and Littoral Manoeuvre Introduction We have seen that deterrence, even nuclear deterrence, doesn’t always work. [1] Thomas Schelling, Nobel Laureate For many years Australians, uneasily peering northward, had comforted themselves with the contemplation of the great arc of islands which stretches from the Pacific by way of the island mass of New Guinea and beneath the centrepiece of the Philippines, through the East Indian archipelago to the Indian Ocean. These islands, particularly in the …
The Military Methods of Guerrillas, Warlords, and Militias Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press , 2021, 464 pp RRP: $US29.95 ISBN 9780691207513 Written By : Stephen Biddle Reviewed By : Andrew Maher For the past decade, international relations have been challenged by problems posed by states and non-state actors functioning in unusual ways. Certain non-state actors, such as Islamic State or Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have instituted forms of governance, generated methods to control …
The Importance of Resources to Capability Development The aim of this series of posts on the Land Power Forum is to pass on what I have learned about the role of Land Capability Division (LCD) over the last two years, in helping the Chief of Army (CA) to manage the capability provided by the Australian Army. The first post introduced the series and outlined the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) fundamental inputs to capability (FIC). [1] It highlighted how the 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS 24) …
