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Abstract Although fraught with difficulty, predictions of the exercise of power, and therefore the basis of the nature and conduct of warfare in the twenty-first century, can be found in two general schools of thought: those who believe that there has been, in the wake of the end of the Cold War, a discontinuity and accompanying paradigm shift in the conduct of international relations; and those who believe claims of such a shift are overstated, and that a realist approach will remain the dominant paradigm …
Australia’s Involvement in Chemical Warfare 1914-1945 Written by: Geoff Plunkett, Australian Military History Publications, Canberra, 2007, ISBN: 9781876439880, 734pp. Reviewed by: John Donovan Somewhere in these 734 pages there is an interesting book (about 300 pages long) struggling to be found. Unfortunately, it is so buried by repetition and lack of focus that only the most determined are likely to plough their way through to the end. The principal cause of the lack of focus seems to be that the …
Dr Alex Ryan is Assistant Professor of Complex Systems at the School of Advanced Military Studies, Command and General Staff College in the United States. He teaches effective thinking, complex systems and design within the Advanced Military Studies Program and the Advanced Operational Art Studies Fellowship. In nine years at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Alex Ryan was the Australian national lead for the TTCP Joint Systems Analysis Action Group on complex adaptive systems for defence, …
Abstract Many who have studied the issue agree that warfare is becoming more and more complex. Yet, while the complexity of war is certainly increasing, our perception of the problem is also coloured by our increasing consciousness of war’s complexity. Coping with this situation has proven difficult, as the long—and still-continuing—learning process witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrates. The Australian Army has risen to this challenge with the release of Adaptive Campaigning and the launch of the …
The contemporary media environment continues to change at an everaccelerating pace, faster than most could have imagined just 10 years ago. This acceleration has significant implications for today’s media outlets and the military. New media is a case in point. It has been described as a ‘combustible mix of 24/7 cable news, call-in radio and television programs, Internet bloggers and online websites, cell phones and iPods’. 1 New media’s meteoric rise and increasing pervasiveness dictate fresh terms for the …