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The land force’s development towards the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Seamless Force of 2020 embraces the Hardening and Networking the Army (HNA) initiative. The HNA scheme is designed to deliver land power through the use of combined arms teams of infantry, armour, artillery and engineers to a battlespace defined by networks and interdependence. Yet, as the ADF moves towards the Seamless Force, there are several HNA capabilities that will increasingly enable the Army to begin thinking about its role as …
Editor's Note Coalition warfare has a history that stretches back at least as far as the Trojan War. Homer’s epic, The Iliad , details how easily the members of coalitions can fall out over matters of policy or clashes of personality. Australia’s military history is deeply rooted in coalition operations. The very first mission of the Commonwealth’s armed forces, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force’s successful seizure of German New Guinea in late 1914, was a coalition operation with both …
Captain Lachlan Mead, Headquarters 1 Brigade, Robertson Barracks … Lachlan Mead …
Lieutenant General James Whiteside McCay, KBE, KCMG (1864–1930), was the son of an Irish immigrant family and was commissioned into the Victorian Rifles in 1886. Promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1900, he was elected to the Federal Parliament in March 1901. Between August 1904 and July 1905, McCay was Minister for Defence and presided over the Hutton reforms that brought about the amalgamation of Australia’s colonial forces into a single national force. In World War I, McCay served as Inspector …