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The Australian Army Journal was first published in the 1940s. Contributions to the journal may be made by serving members or those with an interest in the Australian Army and its activities. The Australian Army Journal commenced publication in 1948 and continued through to 1976. It was revitalised in 1999 and continues to this day. The AARC has expanded indexing Australian Army Journal articles for Early Access, making published content matching your research interests, available online in a nearly final …
Defence Planning and Uncertainty: Preparing for the Next Asia–Pacific War Written by: Stephan Frühling, Routledge, 2014 ISBN 9780415605731, 240pp, As the Indo–Pacific region continues to grow, both economically and militarily, a growing number of countries in the region and beyond are facing challenges in their strategic planning. Stephan Frühling asks, ‘How can countries determine what kind of military force is needed if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises?’ For the …
Dr John Nash is an Academic Research Officer at the Australian Army Research Centre. Previously he was a researcher at the Australian War Memorial for The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor. He was awarded a PhD from the Australian National University in July 2019. He is also a Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, having completed nine years’ fulltime and ten years’ reserve service as a Maritime Warfare …
Militaries worldwide are embracing machines with varying degrees of automation and autonomy. [1] However, ensuring that machines pioneered in industry and academia meet the needs and constraints of military users remains challenging. One core challenge is that machines are frequently conceived and developed as standalone systems, whilst their military use increasingly entails operation in human-machine teams. To be effective in human-machine teaming (HMT), machines must be capable of recognising and …
Dr Timothy Molloy is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. He is currently an Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) Fellow investigating game theory for human-machine teaming. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne on the joint Australia-US multidisciplinary university research intuitive project Neuro-Autonomy: Neuroscience-Inspired Perception, Navigation, and Spatial Awareness for Autonomous Robots , and prior to …
Penguin Books, 2015, New York, ISBN: 9780143107446, 519 pp RRP: $37.99 (softcover) Author: Jean Lartéguy Reviewed By: Anastasia Easton First published in 1960, Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions chronicles the experiences of a group of French paratroopers who survive imprisonment in Indochina during the First Indochina War and return to France before later deploying to Algeria in military operations against the National Liberation Front. Having himself served in North Africa and Korea with the French Free …
CAPT Anastasia Easton is a Royal Australian Artillery officer with Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) experience currently posted to the Australian Army Research Centre as a reservist. She is a published author and current medical student at the University of Sydney. … Anastasia …
Foreword Command is central to the Army profession. The Australian Defence Glossary defines command as ‘the authority which a commander in the military lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment.’ It notes that command also includes responsibility for resources, coordination and control of military forces, and the health, welfare, morale and discipline of assigned personnel. How leaders command changes with the character of war. Lawrence Freedman observes in Command on War that …
New Zealand, Her Allies and the Second World War New Zealand Military History Committee, 2024, ISBN 9780473704230, 486 pp., RRP NZD$45 (softcover) Editors: Peter Cooke and John Crawford Reviewed by: Brian Farrell The most difficult obstacle facing any effort to publish a history book that emerges from an academic conference is to persuade a publisher to take it on in the first place. Many shy away, citing the difficulty of compiling a volume that maintains coherence in coverage of its connecting theme, …
Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN 9780190062361, 496 pp, RRP GBP£27.49 (hardcover) Author: Craig L Symonds Reviewed by: Thomas J Rogers Nimitz at War is a biographical study of Admiral Chester W Nimitz during his time as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) in World War II. Author Craig L Symonds presents a chronological narrative beginning with Nimitz taking control in Hawaii in late December 1941. A prolific naval historian at the …
