Emerging Threats and Opportunities (ETOs) is a regular blog series on the Land Power Forum that collects together blogs, podcasts and articles of interest with the goal of creating discussion on the topic of land power. Lessons  The  Brookings Institute  examines policy options for maintaining military readiness during COVID-19. It argues the US DoD should extend personnel postings beyond the typical two to three years to maintain unit readiness and retain collective knowledge while exercises are cancelled …

Studies of culture in the social sciences increasingly acknowledge the reflexive approach as a useful tool for research. The reflexive approach (sometimes called  auto-ethnography ) calls on the author to be both ‘ subject and object of the inquiry ’, meaning it includes the researcher’s lived experience in the analytic process. Reflexive practices have developed as legitimate methods of qualitative inquiry in some academic fields, but military studies, which stems from the more traditional disciplines …

Deborah presented research on the attributes of military advisors which lead to success in Train Advise and Assist roles with foreign military forces. While the focus was predominantly on Australians deployed on operations in the Middle East, Vietnam veterans, allied security force advisors from the US and UK, Papua New Guinea Defence force personnel, and Afghan National Army personnel were also interviewed. Advisors of all ranks from army private up to four-star General were consulted to obtain tactical …

Captain Freya Doney is an Intelligence Officer with operational deployments to Timor Leste and Afghanistan, with experience leading mixed teams of military and civilian, Australian and foreign, personnel. Captain Doney is particularly interested in great power strategy and current affairs. Her primary role within the Army Research Centre is examining Emerging Threats and Opportunities. … Freya …

Cassandra Brooker began a Masters of Research in 2019 with the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, on a Chief of Army’s Scholarship. Her research is into the effectiveness of influence activities conducted during information warfare (the iWar). She holds a Bachelor of Professional Studies (Peace Studies) from the University of New England, a Masters of Justice (Intelligence) from the Queensland University of Technology, and a Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Science from the University of …

This blog is part of a series on Quantum Technology and future land warfare, put out by the Robotic and Autonomous Systems Implementation and Coordination Office (RICO), a part of Future Land Warfare Branch tasked with coordination and de-confliction or Army's Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)/Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts in accordance with emerging disruptive technology.  Quantum technologies exploit the fundamental laws of nature to reach the ultimate limits of sensing, imaging, …

Captain Marcus Doherty is a scientist, educator, entrepreneur and Army Reserve officer. He is a senior research fellow and lecturer at the Australian National University, where he leads the Diamond Quantum Science and Technology Laboratory and convenes various undergraduate and graduate courses related to quantum science, technology and industry. As an entrepreneur, he is a co-founder and the chief scientific officer of Quantum Brilliance Pty Ltd—an Australian company developing quantum computers based on …

To develop commanders that are more intuitive requires training against a demanding (near-peer) adversary and the time to allow a degree of free-play rather than just the time to tick off the mission-essential task list. This is challenging to achieve in training given resource constraints and the need for safety. We rarely re-run a training serial. Responding to Major Purdy's ' Down and Dirty Downtown: Future Land Combat 2025 ' in October last year, I highlighted that while technology and numerical …

Introduction The ongoing struggle in Ukraine between government forces and Russian backed separatists – as well as operations in Syria - has provided a range of useful insights into trends in future land combat operations.  Much as the Yom Kippur War and the first Gulf War yielded insights into the future of warfare, these conflicts offer an important chance to prepare for the future operations if we are clever enough to grasp the opportunity.  The recent article by Professor Karber and Lieutenant Colonel …

   Emerging Threats and Opportunities (ETOs) is a regular blog series on the Land Power Forum that collects together blogs, podcasts and articles of interest with the goal of creating discussion on the topic of land power.  Lessons   From the  National Defence University , a throwback to 2018 and analysis done on the lessons learnt from the counter-terrorism operations conducted in Iraq by TF714. The key lesson from this study is the ‘irreducible minimum’ level of violence within a given society. For …