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Australian Army Research Centre Spotlight Briefs provide a periodically released curated overview of issues relevant to Australian Landpower. Spotlight Briefs derive solely from available open source material. Inclusion of material in a Spotlight Brief does not imply or reflect Australian Army, Australian Defence Force or Australian Commonwealth Government policy. … Spotlight …

In conversation with 3ME at ARX 2021 2021 marked the inaugural year of the Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC 2021) and Army Robotics Exposition (ARX 2021) which featured static and live demonstrations from industry representatives and Army’s Future Land Warfare Branch. The Australian Army hosted the landmark event over 19 - 20 April 2021 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and highlighted the latest Australian-led technology, partnerships, innovation and people. At the ARX 2021, the Robotic & …

The content in this article is an extract of  Spotlight Brief 7/21 . Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Organisational and Political Consequences The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence – Jun 2021 Paul Dumouchel is interested in how Autonomous Weapon Systems will change Army’s ability to project power, affect the composition of armed forces, and affect the power relationships within them. He makes several thought-provoking observations related to Army structure and force design more broadly. A …

The content in this article is an extract of  Spotlight Brief 7/21 . Accountability and Control of Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Framework for Comprehensive Human Oversight Minds and Machines – Aug 2020 The emergence of Autonomous Weapon Systems has led to increased academic and societal interest in the concepts of accountability and responsibility. Considerable focus has been on accountability gap that will facilitate a lack of criminal liability and moral responsibility. The authors of this paper attempt …

Australian Army Occasional Paper No. 10 Will the military modernisation measures that Army takes today prepare our ADF men and women for the leadership and ethical challenges of tomorrow?  In AARC Occasional Paper 10 , we stand in the shoes of soldier Smith facing the prospect of their first combat operation in 2024.  This Land Power Forum article is an abstract from that Paper. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) ethos is derived from that of our broader society. And in turn, Australians define something …

The content in this article is an extract of  Spotlight Brief 7/21 . Global Networks 2030: Developing Economies and Emerging Technologies Centre for Strategic and International Studies – Mar 2021 Strategic competition in global communications is intensifying. the Centre for Strategic and International Studies has produced this report to help policymakers chart a strategic course regarding developing economies and emerging communications technologies. Hillman and Rivas core contention is that the United …

“The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience (or by your men’s experience), i.e. the hard way. By reading, you learn through others’ experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.” (MAJGEN J Mattis, DIA Reading List 2018) In the conduct of urban warfare, the basic principles have changed little, and slowly, over the last century.  Yet there remains no great classical works to …

  A Practitioners Annotated Bibliography FOREWORD “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana 1905 Every few decades a generation of soldiers learns the ‘lessons’ of urban warfare the hard way. Yet it seems that those …

The content in this article is an extract of  Spotlight Brief 7/21 . Land Operations and Competing Perspectives on Warfare Comparative Strategy — Jul 21 Niklas Nilsson’s article explores how different conceptualisations of the character of warfare have given rise to  conflicting ideas about the contemporary role and mission of land forces. Some perspectives validate the continued relevance of conventional land operations, whilst others imply that they are not as useful as in the past. Nilsson presents the …

The content in this article is an extract of  Spotlight Brief 7/21 . Missile Developments in South Asia: A Perspective from Pakistan The International Institute of Strategic Studies — May 21 Missile Developments in South Asia: A Perspective from India The International Institute of Strategic Studies — June 21 This pair of papers present the ongoing missile development in South-West Asia from alternative viewpoints. The expansion of India and Pakistan’s missile systems reflect ongoing tension and possible …