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This article was originally published on 29th of September 2020. Our Unchecked Indo-Pacific Strategic Faultline Demanding greater strategic attention from Canberra is the future of the Antarctic, [i] a frontier where Indo-Pacific contestation is rising. Currently, the trajectory of the last unclaimed continent on earth, is all but overlooked in the Indo-Pacific narrative. This is a two-part blog piece examining the security challenges relating to the Antarctic. Antarctica is at an inflection point where …
The South Sudanese Civil War as a Case Study for the Insecurity of Women as the Greatest Predictor of Rebellion ABSTRACT This paper aims to provide a context in which the literature of two generally separate fields—gender and insecurity, and predictors of rebellion—can be combined to strengthen the existing framework of security studies. Using the South Sudanese civil war as a case study, it will propose that the greatest indicator of a future uprising is the insecurity of women and that until literature, …
This article was originally published on 12th of February 2019. “My past is an armour I cannot take off, no matter how many times you tell me the war is over.” - unknown Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is often thought to have arisen with the advent of mechanised warfare—think shell shock and the First World War—but the examination of ancient texts offers sufficient evidence that PTSD may be as old as the act of war itself. This raises the question of how might have ancient cultures dealt with PTSD …
This article was originally published on 7th of October 2021. Do you have something to say about the future of Australian Army land power? The Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) invites your contribution to our series of publications; the Australian Army Journal, Occasional Paper Series and the Land Power Forum. The AARC fosters thought leadership to enhance Australian land power. We work to raise the level of professional debate on war, military force, future land capability development, and its …
Lessons from IDF/Hamas’s conflict of 2021 The use of conventional anti-air defence system by Israel against rockets emanating from the Palestinian controlled region of the Gaza city, cannot be mistaken for a conventional response against an adversary’s rocket attack. The Israel’s response may have been perceived by the international community to be merely conventional, but the use of emerging technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) to anticipate targets and identify possible rocket battery …
Studies in British Military History By Brian Bond Helion , Solihull, 2015, 978-1-9107-7757-2, 238pp. Reviewed by Brigadier Chris Roberts AM, CSC (Retd) Covering a diverse range of subjects, this splendid book presents a selection of Professor Brian Bond’s insightful and thought provoking essays from a long academic career in war studies. Highly readable, the essays represent scholarship of the highest order that command respect and consideration irrespective of one’s views on each of the topics …
One of the most effective techniques employed by the ADF for the detection of explosive materials is the use of explosive detection dogs (EDDs). Despite the advancements in explosive detection instrumentation, the use of EDDs has remained a reliable method to detect explosives due to the dogs’ capacity to discriminate a wide range of vapours, along with the accompanying high sensitivity of their olfactory system. However, the long-term reliance on EDDs has led to increased scrutiny of canine explosive …
Welcome to the Australian Army’s Land Power Forum (LPF) and the Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) website . The Forum is a place for writers – and readers – to consider the future of the Australian Army and the use of ‘land power’ within the constellation of joint capabilities. It is also an important gateway to other research products developed by or for the AARC, and the Army’s Future Land Warfare Branch. These include: the Australian Army Journal , Occasional Papers and Research Reports , and the …
In conversation with 3ME at ARX 2021 2021 marked the inaugural year of the Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC 2021) and Army Robotics Exposition (ARX 2021) which featured static and live demonstrations from industry representatives and Army’s Future Land Warfare Branch. The Australian Army hosted the landmark event over 19 - 20 April 2021 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and highlighted the latest Australian-led technology, partnerships, innovation and people. At the ARX 2021, the Robotic & …
The content in this article is an extract of Spotlight Brief 7/21 . Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Organisational and Political Consequences The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence – Jun 2021 Paul Dumouchel is interested in how Autonomous Weapon Systems will change Army’s ability to project power, affect the composition of armed forces, and affect the power relationships within them. He makes several thought-provoking observations related to Army structure and force design more broadly. A …
