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Benjamin Kohlmann’s essay, “The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers,” 1 struck a chord like no other essay published recently in the Small Wars Journal. In brutal honesty, I have to say that the many sniping comments struck exposed flesh. While an ardent fan of Kohlmann’s essay, I have to agree that his argument was more akin to birdshot at maximum range than a mailed fist to the throat of the problem. Perhaps a better analogy is that his was a marking round lobbed in the general vicinity of the …
Mobilisation Planning Requirements for the Land Domain Training System … Contemporary Plan 401 …
Lessons and Cautions for Army in the post-DSR World … The Concept of Mobilisation and Australian Defence Policy since Vietnam …
Australia awakened slowly. The outbreak of the war did not bring an immediate threat to the safety of the people living in Australia … clearly the first care of a nation on entering war was to make certain that home defence measures were adequate to meet any probable threat. But after the first fortnight of war, it was difficult for either the Government or its critics to find clear evidence that any immediate threat existed. [1] … The First Half …
Lessons from the National Service Scheme, 1965–1972 … 'The Army is Too Small' …
Mobilisation and Australia’s National Resilience …
This article comprises a reflective piece on the re-raising of 7RAR in 2006-07. BRIG Shane Gabriel was the battalion’s first CO following its re-raising, and subsequently led elements of it into Afghanistan in 2008-09 as CO of Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force – One. While the Australian Army Journal is and will remain a scholarly, peer reviewed publication, throughout its long history it has been pleased to publish such reminiscences on significant moments in Army’s history. In light of Army’s …
Space Assets, Space Data, and Space Workforce on the Ground … Mobilising Space for Army …
Overseas Plan 401 and the Interwar Australian Military Forces (1919–1939) One thing alone is of import: the point of preparation reached at the actual outbreak of war.—Ferdinand Foch [1] … Expeditionary Force Mobilisation Planning in an Age of Austerity …
Australian Beach Groups, 1943-1945 The process of getting men and vehicles ashore during an assault landing and maintaining them at their full fighting efficiency is complicated by the very nature of the operation … it is no exaggeration to say that once a beach head has been secured, the success of the operation will depend very largely on the early establishment and smooth running of an efficient beach organisation. [i] Introduction and Context By 1943, the American and Australian forces had gained the …