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James Alexander has over 20 years’ experience in Security Management, Operational Security, Vulnerability Analyses, Training and Capability Development. He has extensive international experience from 10 years’ service in the Australian Special Forces (SASR) where he operated in austere environments across the South Pacific, SE Asia, Africa and the Middle East. James has delivered security management solutions and vulnerability analyses for the ADF, private organisations and the humanitarian sector. Prior …

In part one , this Post examined the concept of littoral manoeuvre including its reference within the 2023 Defence Strategic Review (DSR) , the definition of the relevant terms and the capability of platforms used in the littoral domain. The article proposed that littoral manoeuvre should be a concept that represents the holistic capability of littoral manoeuvre vessels transporting land capabilities. As such, littoral manoeuvre is the use of the littoral to achieve positional advantage to influence the …

Littoral Manoeuvre is a major focus for this year’s research by the Australian Army Research Centre , a topic of the 2023 Chief of Army’s History Conference, and a core theme for  the next volume of the Australian Army Journal. Given its importance, this Land Power Forum post provides some background research regarding the term. It argues that the term ‘littoral’ reflects the projection of land power from the sea to the land, which in turn allows land capabilities to influence the sea. The use of the term …

‘Army’s approach to accelerated preparedness’ The scale, scope, concurrency and intensity of conceived future conflicts will require land force mobilisation. The allocation of resources to, across and between operations will vary as the strategic context and direction changes, and for which Army will need to be prepared. When the Government released the Defence Strategic Review 2023 , it called for ‘tangible enhancement to our warfighting capability and to self-reliance in National Defence’ through …

Australian policymakers have long recognised that the resilience of Southeast Asia, as a region bordering the nation’s northern approaches, is fundamental to Australia’s national security. Australian Army Occasional Paper 17 examines how the Australian defence community, with its extensive array of networks in Southeast Asia, can best engage the region in the years ahead.     … Occasional Paper 17 released - Southeast Asia’s Security …

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations with major powers. Concurrently, he is assisting in the ASEAN-Australia Defence Postgraduate Scholarship Program at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. Before joining the Lowy Institute, he completed a PhD at the ANU’s National Security College, focusing on Singapore’s …

Dr Gatra Priyandita is an analyst at the Cyber, Technology and Security Program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. He is also currently a visiting fellow at ANU’s Department of Political and Social Change. Gatra is a political scientist by training and specialises in the study of cyber politics in emerging economies, as well as foreign policy and security issues in Southeast Asia. He holds a PhD in Political Science from ANU. … Gatra …

Dr Sylvia Laksmi is a subject matter expert in the field of international relations and terrorism studies/international security. She has worked as a senior intelligence analyst in the Indonesian Financial Intelligence Unit since 2007 in the specialised area of financial crimes intelligence  investigations. Sylvia received a PhD from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU, where she wrote a thesis examining Indonesian counterterrorist financing policies and their impact on terrorist operations in …

We’re looking for the next generation of quantum thinkers to help tackle some of Army’s biggest problems Quantum Next Generation (QNG) is a series of technology challenges that Army has created to help develop the next generation of quantum thinkers who will drive the growth of Australia’s quantum industry. The challenge is open to: undergraduate and postgraduate students and early career researchers (within 6 years of higher degree award), associated with Australian institutions current Defence personnel …

New capabilities enabled by quantum sensors This post continues a series on quantum technologies. The 2023 Defence Strategic Review has brought into sharp focus the Indo-Australian Archipelago. This chain of islands could be a difficult untrusted littoral environment that Army must learn to work around, where of prominence is the need to know structure inside, under and next to islands and coastlines. Such structures can’t be seen using existing detection techniques. Furthermore, the extended nature of the …