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Abstract Throughout the history of the Australian Army, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women have served with distinction. During the first half of the twentieth century they served despite regulations prohibiting the enlistment of persons ‘not substantially of European origin or descent’. When they managed to skirt the rules and enlist however, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women often found military service an egalitarian experience providing education and employment …
Lost in Translation – Plight of the Embed Author known only as ‘Airman Skippy Zed’ So I take a call one Friday from a panicked guy up in HQ ‘Can you go somewhere Monday? Our Plan A bod’s just fallen through! You’ve got everything we need …’ ‘Ok, where’ve I gotta be?’ Of course the last thing Jackman said was ‘and the unit’s all ARMY.’ I am an Air Force member — yes a part of the ‘TEAM RAAF’ So while I’m working here with you expect me to make a gaffe. Maybe that’s optimistic. Unrealistic too?! But I’m …
The oath to serve your country did not include a contract for the normal luxuries and comforts enjoyed within our society. On the contrary it implied hardship, loyalty and devotion to duty regardless of rank. - Brigadier George Mansford (Retd) As Regimental Sergeant Major – Army (RSM-A), I have a unique leadership responsibility, one which I take very seriously. I am providing this article to the Australian Army Journal because I believe that there is a fundamental area of Army service that is often …
Humanism & Religion: A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture Jens Zimmermann, Oxford University Press, New York, 2012, ISBN 9780199697755, 392pp, RRP US$150.00 The question of who ‘we’ are and what vision of humanity ‘we’ assume in Western culture lies at the heart of hotly debated topics on the role of religion in education, politics and culture in general. The West’s cultural rootlessness and lack of cultural identity are also revealed by the failure of multiculturalism to integrate religiously vibrant …
Abstract Military organisations struggle with defining culture, a problem exacerbated by the lack of agreement on when cultural training should occur and what it should consist of. In the Australian Army cultural training is typically delivered to personnel during operational force preparation. This paper argues that cultural skills need to be developed much earlier, preferable at points throughout a soldier’s entire career. This paper uses the seemingly unrelated issues of mental health, insider threat …
Abstract This article is written as an element of future war analysis conducted at the US Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting and uses primarily US doctrine and concepts relating to cyberspace. Such concepts may not correlate specifically to those used by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) or Australian Army as open source US military perspectives on cyberspace consider both defensive and offensive aspects, while Australia generally provides only a defensive view. However this article aims to …
Abstract This article examines the combined arms imperative driving Plan Beersheba. It begins by describing the major organisational changes occurring in the regular manoeuvre formations of Forces Command as background to discussion of the combined arms imperative behind these organisational changes. Evidence of this imperative is supported by historical analysis of combined arms warfare during the twentieth century and the Australian Army’s experience of employing tanks in Vietnam. The more recent …
Abstract The conclusion of combat operations in Afghanistan opens the debate over how land forces can be best structured, equipped and manned for future tasks. In conditions of substantial uncertainty roughly equivalent to those that prevailed in the lee of the Cold War, the British Army must shape the broader defence debate if it wishes to remain relevant. While this will present a challenge given current resource constraints, this article offers a potential roadmap for the journey ahead, building on the …
Abstract The traditional Army capability-based approach to the 2014 Force Structure Review (FSR), no matter how coherent, is likely to continue to see Army as comparatively worse off than the other Services. For greater success, Army requires a long-term strategy, over a number of years, to break down decades of strategic culture and defence policy trends. Most importantly, Army needs to redefine the current (albeit undeclared) defence policy priority of providing niche combat forces to United States-led …