Based on his own Australian Army Occasional Paper, Transforming Australian Army Logistics to sustain the Joint Land Force , Lieutenant Colonel David Beaumont explains why logistics should be understood by combat forces at a seminar for the AARC. … Transforming Army Logistics: Realising the sustainable joint land …

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Shi’a Crescent: Sectarian Dynamics in Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflict the contemporary ‘Shi’a Crescent’ movement in the Middle East relationships between various Shi’a militia groups Iran’s leverage of the Shi’a Crescent as a proxy force and implications for current conflict in the region relationships between Shi’a militia groups are complex, evolving and poorly understood by most Western observers … Shi’a Crescent: Sectarian Dynamics in Contemporary Middle Eastern …

Closing addresses for the Chief of Army Land Forces Seminar 2018 (CALFS18) were thoughtfully delivered by: Deputy Chief of the Australian Army,  Major General Justin 'Jake' Ellwood Chief of the Australian Army,  Lieutenant General Rick Burr … CALFS18 Closing …

The various events being held at the Chief of Army's Land Forces Seminar 2018 including the speakers, their transcripts and relevant papers they have contributed to the event.   … CALFS18 Seminar events …

At the beginning of the second World War the Wehrmacht was by any measure a capable organisation. Initially it swept larger better equipped armies  before it. This is usually explained in terms of superior concepts, doctrine and leadership - and being built on the sound foundations of a learning organisation – the Reichswehr. Yet the Wehrmacht had a blind spot – urban operations. While it had developed technologies and tactics for overcoming fortresses, it simply did not expect extensive fighting in …

Dr David Stahel completed his undergraduate studies at Monash University and Boston College. He has an MA in War Studies from King's College London and a PhD in 2007 from the Humboldt University in Berlin. He joined the University of New South Wales Canberra in 2012. David is a historian, author and senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales. He specialises in German military history of the second World War. Stahel has authored several books on the military operations of the first six …

Peter Singer is Strategist and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. The author of multiple award winning books, and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. His past work includes serving at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Harvard University, an editor at Popular Science magazine, and as the founding director of the Centre for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at The Brookings Institution, where he was the youngest person named senior fellow in its 100 year history. Peter’s …

There have been substantial changes to ADF organisation, policy and training, as well as major investment in female recruiting in order to fully integrate an increased proportion of women in all defence workplaces. In 2016 when restrictions on women joining the combat arms of the ADF were lifted, questions asked went beyond issues of physical performance requirements to raise the issues of the overall effectiveness of mixed gender teams, especially under combat conditions. Anecdotally many of the …