Search
Using the filters to the left, click your selection, it will become bold and filter the results, click it again to remove that filter.
Militaries worldwide are embracing machines with varying degrees of automation and autonomy. [1] However, ensuring that machines pioneered in industry and academia meet the needs and constraints of military users remains challenging. One core challenge is that machines are frequently conceived and developed as standalone systems, whilst their military use increasingly entails operation in human-machine teams. To be effective in human-machine teaming (HMT), machines must be capable of recognising and …
Dr Timothy Molloy is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. He is currently an Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) Fellow investigating game theory for human-machine teaming. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne on the joint Australia-US multidisciplinary university research intuitive project Neuro-Autonomy: Neuroscience-Inspired Perception, Navigation, and Spatial Awareness for Autonomous Robots , and prior to …
Penguin Books, 2015, New York, ISBN: 9780143107446, 519 pp RRP: $37.99 (softcover) Author: Jean Lartéguy Reviewed By: Anastasia Easton First published in 1960, Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions chronicles the experiences of a group of French paratroopers who survive imprisonment in Indochina during the First Indochina War and return to France before later deploying to Algeria in military operations against the National Liberation Front. Having himself served in North Africa and Korea with the French Free …
CAPT Anastasia Easton is a Royal Australian Artillery officer with Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) experience currently posted to the Australian Army Research Centre as a reservist. She is a published author and current medical student at the University of Sydney. … Anastasia …
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 …
New Zealand, Her Allies and the Second World War New Zealand Military History Committee, 2024, ISBN 9780473704230, 486 pp., RRP NZD$45 (softcover) Editors: Peter Cooke and John Crawford Reviewed by: Brian Farrell The most difficult obstacle facing any effort to publish a history book that emerges from an academic conference is to persuade a publisher to take it on in the first place. Many shy away, citing the difficulty of compiling a volume that maintains coherence in coverage of its connecting theme, …
Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN 9780190062361, 496 pp, RRP GBP£27.49 (hardcover) Author: Craig L Symonds Reviewed by: Thomas J Rogers Nimitz at War is a biographical study of Admiral Chester W Nimitz during his time as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) in World War II. Author Craig L Symonds presents a chronological narrative beginning with Nimitz taking control in Hawaii in late December 1941. A prolific naval historian at the …
World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean University Press of Kentucky, 2022, ISBN 9780813183770, 282 pp, RRP USD$40 (hardcover) Author: David D Dworak Reviewed by: John Nash As the well-worn aphorism goes, ‘amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics’. Undoubtedly, logistics is at the core of every military operation throughout history, making or breaking battles, campaigns and wars. War of Supply by David Dworak is an excellent examination of Allied logistics in the Mediterranean …
The British and American Armies, 1917–1941 University Press of Kansas , 2022, ISBN 9780700633180, 304 pp, RRP USD$59.99 (hardcover) Author: Tyler R Bamford Reviewed by: Megan Hamilton The alliance between Great Britain and the United States of America in World War II was deemed to be ‘the most complete unification of military effort ever achieved’ by General George Marshall, US Army Chief of Staff during the war. [1] However, as other scholars of alliance warfare in the 20th-century Anglosphere have …
Crafting a Vision for the Future Australian Army The fall of Singapore opens the Battle for Australia … what the Battle of Britain required, the Battle for Australia demands. Prime Minister John Curtin, 1942 [1] Introduction By late 1941, Australia had deployed more than 22,000 soldiers across its northern approaches in preparation for a possible Japanese advance on the mainland. By February 1942, Singapore, Malaya and The Dutch East Indies were all under Emperor Hirohito’s control. New Guinea and the …