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In the years since improvised explosive devices (IEDs) became symbols of asymmetric warfare and modern military conflict, very little has changed in the realm of counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) strategy. The military is always searching for better vehicles and equipment to defeat what is, at its core, a homemade device made for a fraction of the cost of our technological countermeasures. As a result, C-IED strategy has primarily focused on developing new ways to mitigate the effects of an IED …
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 …
Brigadier David Luhrs is the Commandant of the Royal Military College of Australia. His career has spanned 32 years, commencing as an Army Apprentice Carpenter and Joiner and including multiple training, combat and construction engineer appointments. He has served on the staff in Defence and Army Headquarters, commanded at each troop, squadron, unit and formation level, and seen operational service in Namibia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a graduate of the Southern Cross University, the Australian Army …
Peter J Munson is a Marine officer, KC-130 pilot, and Middle East Foreign Area Officer currently assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command. He is the author of two books, Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy (Potomac, 2009) and War, Welfare, and Democracy: Rethinking America’s Quest for the End of History (Potomac, forthcoming in fall 2012). A frequent contributor to multiple journals and blogs, including his own ( http://peterjmunson.blogspot.com ), he …
Army After Afghanistan Speech to the Sydney Institute by the Chief of the Australian Army Lieutenant General David Morrison, February 2012 It is an honour to address the Sydney Institute. Over more than two decades Gerard and Anne have cemented the reputation of the Sydney Institute as the premier forum in this city for the serious discussion of public policy as well as the arts and culture. Theirs is a considerable achievement, and I am grateful for the opportunity to deliver my first address to an …
Major David Caligari is an infantry officer who has served in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, The Royal Australian Regiment. He has commanded at platoon and company level, including as commander Ready Combat Team and commander Ground Combat Element for the Australian Amphibious Force. He served as the 2019 aide-de-camp to the 1st Division Commander, planned the 2020 NATO response to COVID-19 in Afghanistan as the acting Director of Current Operations, and was the operations officer of the Ready Battle …
Colonel John Pearse , CSM is a SERCAT 5 Officer who has served most of his career in the armoured corps. He has a passion for force integration across the Total Workforce System and is currently the Director of Total Workforce Training at HQ FORCOMD. He has Master degrees in Military and Defence Studies from the Australian National University and in National Security and Strategy from Deakin University. John is a Fellow of the Defence Strategic Studies Centre. … John …
Major General Chris Field, @ChrisFieldAus , serves as an Australian Army Officer in Headquarters Australian Defence Force. … Chris Field …
In an era of increasing focus upon concepts such as hybrid warfare, insurgency and ‘low intensity conflict', asymmetry is often seen as a means employed by conventionally weak actors against traditional military powers. This presumption is challenged by the author in this paper. Unfortunately, most of the ADF's future operating concepts inadvertently give ground to Australia's enemies by—almost exclusively—addressing asymmetric warfare as a style of fighting in the unique realm of people who will do harm …
In this paper, Brigadier Field examines the role of the 9th Australian Division in Operation Cartwheel which involved the capture of the Japanese Base at Lae. He uses this division’s expeditionary operations and amphibious manoeuvre as the basis for analysis of the seven tenets of manoeuvre described in current Land Warfare Doctrine. The result highlights the challenges inherent to expeditionary operations and amphibious manoeuvre in Australia’s primary operating environment. Brigadier Field also offers …
