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Major PJ Beor is currently the officer commanding 109 Signals Squadron. A career Reservist, in his civilian job he is the Manager of Engineering Services at the Water Corporation of Western Australia. Prior to commanding 109 he was the Officer Commanding 113 Field Workshop (twice). Yes, he is a RAEME officer. … P J …

Abstract Successive Defence White Papers have emphasised the need for an effective amphibian deployment and sustainment system involving Army, Navy and Air Force assets to project force across Australia’s primary operating environment. Australia is purchasing two ships capable of carrying significant amounts of equipment, but further investments of both money and professional resources will be essential to develop an effective force package capable of the full suite of amphibious tasks. Lessons can be …

Captain Anthony Bamford , Royal Australian Armoured Corps, commissioned from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in December 2006. He has served with the 1st Armoured Regiment as a Troop Leader, Squadron Second in Command and most recently as Adjutant. Captain Bamford has represented the Australian Defence Force on exchange with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (UK, 2008) and has deployed on Operation SLIPPER as a PMV Troop Leader (2009). He is currently a Staff Officer in the Operations Cell within …

Abstract Change within our society and primary operating environment has reached exponential levels. The requirement to create an adaptive Army was recognised early this century and Army has been working to create a cultural shift that will make it more effective in its current endeavours. The key catalyst to enable an adaptive Army is agile commanders who have the freedom of action to adapt and overcome. This article examines the methods that software engineers and project managers use to solve non linear …

Captain Matthew Jefferies joined the Army as a Combat Engineer in 2001. He was posted to the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment were he completed the Army Year 12 Equivalency Course and was accepted at Duntroon. After graduation he transferred to the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and has been posted to the Army Logistics Training Centre, 1st Command Support Regiment, Special Air Service Regiment, 1st Armoured Regiment and is currently serving at the Australian Headquarters Joint Operations …

Abstract This article suggests that the ADF should seek to adopt a standard organisation for infantry battalions, based on manpower and organisation, rather than conditions dictated by manning equipment. The aim of this article is to propose one type of infantry battalion for the Australian Defence Force. One type of infantry battalion would greatly simplify organisation, manning, and refocus thinking toward the fact that infantry are human beings to whom the army gives equipment, and are not simply there …

William F Owen is a military writer, critic and defence technology journalist, living and working in Israel. He joined the British Army in 1980 and served in both regular and territorial infantry battalions, as well as the Intelligence Corps, until 1993. He has since worked on defence projects in the Middle and Far East, as well as West Africa. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree by Research at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. … William F …

ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) inexorably connected Australia and New Zealand with these words: It was eighteen minutes past four (5:48am Afghanistan time) on the morning of Sunday, 25th April [1915], when the first boat grounded... the men leapt into the water, and the first of them had just reached the beach when fire was opened on them from the trenches on the foothills which rise immediately from the beach. 1 This ANZAC action occurred at Gallipoli, Turkey, which is approximately 4000 …

Abstract To communicate effectively, one must write clearly. To write clearly, one must think clearly. To succeed in battle, one also must communicate effectively and think clearly. So one would think Army would place a premium on clarity of expression. Yet there is abundant evidence in the pages of this Journal that the clarity of military writing is in sharp decline. Why this might be so, and what can be done about it, is the subject of this article. I have read every issue of the Australian Army Journal …

Ross Buckley is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and an Australia21 Fellow in the research network on ‘Enhancing Australia’s Security and Prosperity in the 21st Century’. He is the founding Series Editor of the Global Trade Law Series of Kluwer of The Hague, and Series Co-Editor of Kluwer’s International Banking and Finance Law Series. He has written extensively, mostly on international finance law. He has also consulted to the US Department of Justice, the US …