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Caroline Croser holds a PhD from Lancaster University in Defence and Security Studies. Her thesis was entitled Operationalising Uncertainty: The US military and the new spatiality of new security and drew on fieldwork with 1st Cavalry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, the Marine Corps Concept Development Centre and the Office of Force Transformation. She presently works for the Department of Defence in Strategic Policy Division. … Caroline …

Lieutenant Benjamin Rice is an officer in the Australian Army. … Benjamin Rice …

Lieutenant Colonel Brendan Robinson is a graduate of the UK Command and Staff College and the Royal Military College Duntroon. Trained as a mechanical engineer at the Australian Defence Force Academy, he now coordinates infrastructure and training area development projects from the Plans Branch at Headquarters Forces Command and maintains a healthy interest in world affairs and Army modernisation.(Last updated: July 2017) … Brendan …

Antony Trentini holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (Strategic Studies) degrees from the Australian National University, and is currently studying Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He has worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Defence and Security Applications Research Centre at UNSW@ADFA. He is currently employed at the Land Warfare Studies Centre. (Last updated: June 2010) … Antony …

Ben Gallacher is the Officer Commanding Canungra Wing, Warrant Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer Academy. … Ben Gallacher …

It was bound to happen: the Australian cricketers have now been compared to diggers. ‘Australian values’, apparently mislaid by the Australian cricket team last month, are safely embodied in 'our Diggers’ according to Greg Sheridan in  The Australian , but who are these diggers? While athletes continue to maintain high individual profiles, 'diggers' are still morphed into one vaguely historical, khaki mass, and it is highly likely the public would be pressed to name one. Anzac Day is the time for talking …

A recent blog post on the  generalist vs specialist in the Army  debate, reminds us of the work of military sociologist  Charles Moskos  and his Institutional/Occupational thesis. In 1977, Charles Moskos, proposed the I/O thesis which explained how the American military was moving away from an institutional model to one which resembled an occupation. What he meant by that was that the modern military was demonstrating fewer features of an institution (like professional availability at all times, inability …

The  Chief of Army’s Land Forces Seminar 2018 (CALFS)  was held in Adelaide from 4-6 September and addressed the topic ‘The Application of Land Power in the Indo Pacific’. The Chief’s intent for the focus of the seminar was  strengthening partnerships and unlocking our collective potential  and this theme was explored by sixteen Australian and international speakers over four half-day sessions. These sessions are summarised below. All speakers agreed that the Indo-Pacific region is characterised by the …

This article by Director - AARC, Colonel Peter Connolly, was first published on  The Strategist  and is republished with kind permission of ASPI. As China’s national and international economic interests have steadily grown, so has the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to protect them. China’s expanding, social-media-savvy middle class now expects the military to protect the country’s citizens overseas. That expectation has been reinforced formally by the  strategic direction  for the PLA to ‘protect the …

This article by Director - AARC, Colonel Peter Connolly, was first published on  The Strategist  and is republished with the kind permission of ASPI. China’s growing military power has recently found expression in its popular culture. Highly nationalistic movies extol the virtues and capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army in a clear move to establish evacuation operations as the ‘new normal’. What does that mean for our region? Part 1  of this series explained how the development of China’s policy of …