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The 1945 Borneo campaign, conducted by the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions of I Australian Corps, was the largest ever planned and conducted by Australia’s armed forces. It involved Allied amphibious assaults against the forces of Imperial Japan at Tarakan (OBOE 1) and Balikpapan (OBOE 2) in Indonesia, and Brunei Bay (OBOE 6) in Malaysia and Brunei. In the case of OBOE 6, the two large-scale amphibious landings on Labuan and the shores of Brunei Bay were quickly followed by three battalion-group …
The AARC has expanded indexing of Australian Army Journal content to include articles for Early Access, so that users can find newly published content that matches their research interests as soon as we make it available online in a nearly final state. The DOI assigned to an article for Early Access will remain valid when the AAJ issue is published through the use of URL redirects. … Early Access …
Foreword Command is central to the Army profession. The Australian Defence Glossary defines command as ‘the authority which a commander in the military lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment.’ It notes that command also includes responsibility for resources, coordination and control of military forces, and the health, welfare, morale and discipline of assigned personnel. How leaders command changes with the character of war. Lawrence Freedman observes in Command on War that …
Dr. Risa Brooks is Allis-Chalmers Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA, a non-resident fellow in the Future Security program at New America and non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She is the author of Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton University Press), co-editor (with Elizabeth Stanley) of Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (Stanford University …
Dr Jack Watling Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare, Royal United Services Institute Dr Watling provides a powerful assessment on the profession of arms and delves into the human elements of war and contemporary battlefields. He covered four things: Firstly, address what is the relationship between technology and professionalism. Secondly, suggest some aspects of the human face of battle which are changing and which we need to confront and be prepared for. Thirdly, address what that means for …
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