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This blog post is a two-part adaptation of the author’s essay entitled Moral injury and the gap between the soldier and the state’s moral identity, which placed third in the ADF Officer’s category of the 2019 Jamie Cullens Defence Essay Competition. The original can be viewed in full on The Forge’s website here . While Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Veteran Suicide receive a great deal of attention in Australia, the existence of moral injury is receiving growing attention. A/Prof Deane-Peter …
When responding to the strategic challenges in the Indo-Pacific, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) is employed as a tool of coercion and deterrence. In regional peacekeeping, for example, where the Australian Federal Police (AFP) is charged with maintaining order and controlling crime alongside the indigenous police forces, the ADF is used as an instrument of persuasion against the greater sources of violence and instability. Within this role, the ADF can be thought of as an ‘information operation’ (IO). …
LTCOL Mark O'Neill presents on the topic of Australia and irregular warfare in the Indo-Pacific century. … Living with Giants and Liliputians …
CAPT Marcus Doherty explains Quantum Technology, the global and Australian strategic imperatives and discusses a framework for Australian Army technology. … Quantum Technology - An introduction and the strategic imperative …
Major Power Competition IFRI reports that the ‘Transformation of Russian Strategic Culture’ is evolving fast. With the Russian ruling regime maturing “into a more rigid autocracy, its ideological outlooks become increasingly conservative, which hampers the modernization of the strategic culture”. The pressure of actual military engagements and rapidly evolving technologies are also influencing changes. As a result, IFRI argues their next moves are almost impossible to predict, as “Russian strategic culture …
Insight into the strategic calculus of an opponent is a rare commodity. Intention is often inferred indirectly from an adversary’s actions, giving rise to misunderstanding, miscalculation and misfortune. Following World War II, Sir Basil Liddell Hart interviewed German Generals facing trial at Nuremburg, recorded in The Other Side of the Hill , which offered insight into the calculus informing decisions to execute particular actions at given times. This account critically forced review of British views of …
Ashton Robinson is an Honorary Fellow with the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and the author of Meeting Saddam’s Men, Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2019. … Ashton Robinson …
Major Power Competition From The Diplomat , an analysis of the Type 076 LHD being developed by the People’s Liberation Army. Of note is that it is believed capable of conducting fixed wing flight operations via electromagnetic catapult, suggesting the intent to operate UAVs, in addition to the capability of conducting well-deck operations. If accurate, this might suggest an expanding scope of naval power projection made possible by using unmanned systems, at lesser expense than traditional aircraft carrier …
Major Andrew Maher presents the Hizbollah Case Study to combine other presentations and writings on the topic. … Hizbollah Case Study …
Saddam's Iraq: Strangely conceived strategy …
