The Land Power Forum papers,  The canon and four generations of warfare Parts 1, 2 and 3 , [1]  note that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: …the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first generation of modern war through the second and third generations and into the fourth. [2] …

The Land Power Forum papers,  The canon and four generations of warfare Parts 1 and 2 , [1]  note that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: …the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first generation of modern war through the second and third generations and into the fourth. [2] This …

The 2016 Land Power Forum paper,  The canon and four generations of warfare , [1]  notes that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: …the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first generation of modern war through the second and third generations and into the fourth. [2] This paper …

This paper shares planning observations from 3rd Brigade Headquarters Forward during Exercise Hamel, June - July 2016. These planning observations are summarised as  Three Cs : Communicate Command, control and battlespace Concurrent planning Context As Army’s Reset Brigade from June 2015 until July 2016, 3rd Brigade enabled Exercise Hamel Exercise Control and provided a command and control node at Cultana Field Training Area, South Australia. The 3rd Brigade’s command and control node was assigned under …

The word  canon  originated from Greek as  kanōn  (rule). Today, one definition of  canon  is ‘the list of works considered to be permanently established as being of the highest quality’. [1] In June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: … the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first …

The  Defence White Paper 2016  challenges us all, specifically the Australian Army, to innovate and to integrate reform into our core business processes in the face of a more complex future strategic environment. How do we respond to the White Paper’s challenge and how can the Army fulfil the exacting innovation requirements articulated in its pages? The logical starting point for this discussion is to create a common understanding of the term ‘innovation’. From this understanding we can examine two ideas …

As the summer holidays approach, full of the promise of reading (or listening) time, it is worth looking at some of the books, articles, and other writings that have inspired members of the Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) over the last year.  There are other resources out there, with no end of professional reading lists to choose from, including from the AARC: a littoral focused list from earlier this year, and the 2019 Army reading list . A new Army Reading List is being developed and will be …

  The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been traditionally been viewed as a predominantly military institution focused on conventional warfighting. However, over the past few decades, this perception has broadened significantly. The ADF's remit now includes a variety of non-military tasks, such as disaster relief and support during public health emergencies. These activities have highlighted the inadequacies in our existing legal and policy frameworks, particularly the ambiguous term "domestic violence" …

  Reflecting on recently introduced ADF-wide policy on respite, author Phillip Hoglin identifies areas for further improvement in Occasional Paper 21, Respite Periods in the ADF . He outlines factors that contribute to enduring challenges to the achievement of consistent respite policy, with reference to both Australian and overseas experience. Hoglin identifies a spectrum of applied and academic approaches to address these issues and, based on his analysis, provides several workable options for …

Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era     Editor :  Benjamin Armstrong Naval Institute Press , Annapolis, 2013. 179 pp  Reviewed By : Jennifer Parker   Benjamin F. Armstrong’s 21 st Century Mahan revisits the works of Rear-Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, an influential American maritime strategist whose ideas shaped maritime thinking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – and arguably the 21st. Mahan is best known for the often quoted, yet impenetrably written ‘The Influence of Sea Power Upon …