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Abstract The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the role a conventional parachute capability can have in modern expeditionary operations. It will argue that a conventional parachute capability is still viable and relevant in the Australian Defence Force, either as a single capability or in support of the amphibious capability, particularly in regard to the force required to undertake modern expeditionary operations. In addition, this article will query the viability of the development of the …
Lieutenant Colonel Jason Thomas is a Royal Australian Armoured Corps officer who has recently returned from service as the Commander of the Australian Contingent on Operation PALADIN, the Australian contribution to UNTSO. Prior to this, he served in a variety of training and command appointments. … Jason …
Abstract The recently endorsed and released Adaptive Campaigning had been cited as ‘fundamental to achieving the Adaptive Army’. The late Colonel John Boyd, USAF, famed for his work on the ‘OODA loop’ also conducted a considerable amount of research on adaptation in times of conflict and peace. This article reviews the lessons that Army could learn from his work. The article also argues that some elements of his work have been corrupted in Adaptive Campaigning, in particular the new ‘Adaption Cycle’ seen …
Lieutenant Colonel Adam J Hepworth, PhD leads the Australian Army’s emerging technology program as Director of the Robotic and Autonomous Systems Implementation and Coordination Office (RICO). Adam is an Expert Member on the Global Commission for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain (GC REAIM) through The Hague Center for Strategic Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, resident in the School of Systems and Computing. Adam holds a Bachelor of Science in …
Crumps and Camouflets: Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front , Written by: Damien Finlayson, Big Sky Publishing, Newport, 2010, ISBN 9780980658255, 480 pp Reviewed by: Michael Molkentin In Australia during the two decades following the Great War, publication of ‘unit’ or ‘regimental’ histories was prolific. Typically written by battalion associations or ex-unit members possessing a literary flair, the genre was encouraged by funding from the Australian National Defence League and the …
Anzac Fury: The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 , Written by: Peter Thompson, William Heinemann, Sydney, 2010, ISBN 9781741669206, 506 pp Reviewed by: Eleanor Hancock, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales@ADFA The battle of Crete remains contested in historical studies of the Second World War. Was the German decision to wrest the island off the Allies a mistake? Was the German victory a pyrrhic victory as many have claimed? Did mistakes by the Allied defenders lose the …
The Road to Singapore: The Myth of British Betrayal , Written by: Augustine Meaher IV, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010, ISBN 9781921509957, 243 pp, RRP AU$39.95 Reviewed by: John Connor Sometimes it takes an outsider to provide a clear-eyed interpretation of a controversial event in a nation’s history. In this book, Augustine Meaher IV—who, as his name suggests, is a larger-than-life military historian from Mobile, Alabama in America’s Deep South—provides a compelling analysis of why …
The Media at War , Written by: Susan L Carruthers, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN 9780230244573, 329 pp Reviewed by: Cynthia Banham Susan Carruthers wrote the first edition of The Media at War in 2000—before 11 September 2001, the war on terrorism, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and before the advent of ‘new media’. Yet if one thing is clear from reading the updated version of her book, published eleven years later, it is that when it comes to the reporting of war, little if anything …
