Lessons from IDF/Hamas’s conflict of 2021 The use of conventional anti-air defence system by Israel against rockets emanating from the Palestinian controlled region of the Gaza city, cannot be mistaken for a conventional response against an adversary’s rocket attack. The Israel’s response may have been perceived by the international community to be merely conventional, but the use of emerging technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) to anticipate targets and identify possible rocket battery …

Studies in British Military History   By Brian Bond Helion , Solihull, 2015, 978-1-9107-7757-2, 238pp. Reviewed by Brigadier Chris Roberts AM, CSC (Retd)   Covering a diverse range of subjects, this splendid book presents a selection of Professor Brian Bond’s insightful and thought provoking essays from a long academic career in war studies. Highly readable, the essays represent scholarship of the highest order that command respect and consideration irrespective of one’s views on each of the topics …

One of the most effective techniques employed by the ADF for the detection of explosive materials is the use of explosive detection dogs (EDDs). Despite the advancements in explosive detection instrumentation, the use of EDDs has remained a reliable method to detect explosives due to the dogs’ capacity to discriminate a wide range of vapours, along with the accompanying high sensitivity of their olfactory system. However, the long-term reliance on EDDs has led to increased scrutiny of canine explosive …

LT Oscar Fowler is a RASigs officer currently posted at the AARC in AHQ. He has completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Chemistry through UNSW Canberra with his studies focusing explosives and hazardous vapour detection. LT Fowler is also working alongside DSTG and Air Force Plan Jericho as the project manager and system designer for the Canary Sensor System. … Oscar …

Welcome to the Australian Army’s Land Power Forum (LPF) and the Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) website . The Forum is a place for writers – and readers – to consider the future of the Australian Army and the use of ‘land power’ within the constellation of joint capabilities. It is also an important gateway to other research products developed by or for the AARC, and the Army’s Future Land Warfare Branch. These include:  the Australian Army Journal , Occasional Papers and Research Reports , and the …

Evolving Australian and Allied Special Operations Forces to Fight and Win in the Chaos Foreword The contemporary conflict environment is complex, cluttered and highly connected. In an urbanised, heavily populated, informationally dense environment, regular armed forces (including the ADF) now face an enormously varied and lethal range of both state and non-state threats. As Benny Johanson notes in this paper, the explosion of electronic connectivity since the turn of the century and the resulting rise in …

The purpose of Strategic Assessments is to highlight key trends and challenges to the Army in order to inform force design, structure and posture decisions. It considers emergent challenges faced by Australia and assesses their implications for the Army’s future concepts, force structure and narrative. … Strategic …

The purpose of this paper is to highlight key trends and challenges to the Army in order to inform force design, structure and posture decisions. It considers emergent challenges faced by Australia and assesses their implications for the Army’s future concepts, force structure and narrative. This paper is oriented towards the impact of the summer bushfire season, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ramifications of these events within the geostrategic environment. The impact of the pandemic has yet to fully …

Australian Army Research Centre Spotlight Briefs provide a periodically released curated overview of issues relevant to Australian Landpower. Spotlight Briefs derive solely from available open source material. Inclusion of material in a Spotlight Brief does not imply or reflect Australian Army, Australian Defence Force or Australian Commonwealth Government policy. … Spotlight …

In conversation with 3ME at ARX 2021 2021 marked the inaugural year of the Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC 2021) and Army Robotics Exposition (ARX 2021) which featured static and live demonstrations from industry representatives and Army’s Future Land Warfare Branch. The Australian Army hosted the landmark event over 19 - 20 April 2021 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and highlighted the latest Australian-led technology, partnerships, innovation and people. At the ARX 2021, the Robotic & …