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Address: Australian Defence Magazine Congress, Hyatt Hotel Canberra, Wednesday 14 February 2018. 09.10 am Check against delivery. Distinguished guests, colleagues, delegates, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. I would like to also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are meeting this morning, the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respects to their elders, both past and present. And in doing so invite, indeed strongly encourage, young Ngunnawal men and women to consider following a …
Our futures statement is designed to stimulate thinking about ourselves as an Army in a rapidly changing context, and to contribute to the authoritative joint concepts that will drive future investment and force structure considerations. As an Army in Motion , our profession demands a continuous contest of ideas. This requires wide engagement across Defence, whole of government, industry, academia and our international military partners as well as with new and emerging partners. Our aim is to strengthen …
Adaptive Campaigning - Future Land Operating Concept (AC-FLOC), replaces Complex Warfighting 04 and Adaptive Campaigning 06 as a single, holistic document. It is Army's new capstone concept. By identifying and analysing the challenges of current and emerging operating environments, in conjunction with guidance from the Defence White Paper 2009 and the Adaptive Army initiative, AC-FLOC describes actions of an integrated Joint Land Force response, as part of the whole-of-government approach to the demands …
The Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Rick Burr, AO, DSC, MVO announced that Army were to host the Chief of Army’s Land Forces Seminar (CALFS) 2020 in Brisbane. CALFS is hosted alongside the Land Forces event, which is presented in partnership with Industry Defence and Security Australia Limited. CALFS and Land Forces 2020 bring together the Australian Army, local defence companies and their global defence industry partners to further collaborate and mature relationships with industry and demonstrate …
Generalship is an intellectual endeavour; generals must understand the character of war and create a vision of success. They must be resolute in their commitment and bold in their execution to achieve this success. But, they must also never let go of their humanity, their compassion for innocent civilians, their own soldiers and even the enemy. In the abstract, this seems straightforward, but on the ground when you are exhausted, when information is confused and you are being shot at, even straightforward …
Many of history’s great armies have distinguished themselves by demonstrating superb individual and organisational resilience. From Field Marshal Sir William Slim’s Fourteenth Army in Burma, which snatched victory from the jaws of defeat during the Second World War, to the 39th Battalion which prevailed over a tenacious Japanese Army on the Kokoda Track, or the actions of I Anzac Corps at Pozieres on the Western Front during the First World War, resilience has played a decisive role in achieving victory. …
