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Brigadier Nerolie McDonald has been employed in a wide variety of tactical, operational and strategic level intelligence roles within land, training and joint environments. She has also undertaken postings in the disciplines of international policy, capability, strategy, operations and command. Brigadier McDonald has a Bachelor of Arts Honours (Economics) and a Master of Arts (Strategy and Policy) from the University of New South Wales and is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Royal …
US Army Engineers in World War II by Chris McNab Casemate Publishers , 2023, 194 pp Hardcover ISBN: 9781636243863 Digital download: 9781636243870 Reviewed by Nicholas Bosio It is easy to say that military professionals should study military history, and the underlying theory of our profession, through the lens of context, width, and depth. Yet, how does one study depth ? Michael Howard’s seminal article, ‘The Use and Abuse of Military History’, contends that depth is achieved by studying a campaign or …
Major General Stephen Day , DSC, AM served in the Australian Army for 40 years, including conflicts in Africa, East Timor, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He has been formally recognised for his leadership by the Australian, French and United States governments. He held senior and privileged positions – Deputy Operations Officer of the Multi National Force – Iraq, a force in excess of 400,000, and Chief of Plans for ISAF Joint Command in Afghanistan for a force in excess of 100,000. As part of a small group of …
Army Innovation Day is a strategic collaboration between the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator and the Australian Army. Each year Army Innovation Day has a new theme that helps us explore how disruptive technologies can solve some of our most complex challenges, bolster our project pipeline and give soldiers exposure to the latest innovative concepts and ways of thinking. The Australian Army is seeking submissions demonstrating innovative capabilities to enhance the endurance, lethality and …
Colonel Renée Kidson CSM is currently Colonel Domestic Operations and Plans in Headquarters 5th Brigade of the Australian Army. Renée is a dual-career exemplar. Her military career has spanned 27 years to date, which she has proudly served as a Reservist concurrently with her civilian executive career. In her ADF capacity, she has served on multiple deployments internationally and domestically, most notably as Task Group Commander in New South Wales during Operation BUSHFIRE ASSIST 2019–2020, for which she …
Dr Marigold Black is an intellectual historian with expertise in geopolitics, strategic level defence and national security issues. She was previously a Strategic Policy and Futures Research Fellow with the Australian Army Research Centre and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, where she has undertaken extensive studies in sovereignty and the levers of national power, and worked with the Army to advance its intellectual strengths as part of the Joint Future …
Dr Austin Wyatt joined RAND Australia in 2022. His research focuses on the impacts of emerging and disruptive critical technologies, with a particular focus on AI and autonomous systems. While at RAND, Austin has contributed to research supporting the ADF in its engagement with emerging technologies. He holds a PhD in political science from the Australian Catholic University, which was awarded summa cum laude and received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research. Prior to joining …
Dr Andrew Dowse has been director of RAND Australia since July 2021. In this role, he identifies policy research opportunities for Australian clients at the Commonwealth and state/territory levels, delivers and disseminates high-quality research and analysis on Australian policy issues, and leads the RAND Australia office in Canberra. His most recent work for RAND Australia has been in providing research support to the Australian Department of Defence, specifically the Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise …
Dr Joanne Nicholson joined RAND Australia in July 2019 after 20 years’ combined experience working in and across government, industry and academia, particularly in support of defence, national security and the intelligence community. As a highly experienced operations researcher, strategic analyst and futures specialist, Joanne works with a variety of agencies to ensure their investment programs are aligned to relevant and appropriate strategic objectives and designed to deliver the benefits that their …
Introduction This reading list comprises notable works on littoral manoeuvre. It is by no means exhaustive, nor is it prescriptive. Reading lists are often a fraught endeavour: there are countless books, articles, reports, blogs, and podcasts concerned with any topic one might choose to study. As such, it is often better to present a selection of works with the caveat that what follows is a guideline on some of the most notable literature on the topic, in this case, ‘littoral manoeuvre’. The following …
