LT Emma Milner is an RA Sigs officer, currently posted to 3rd Combat Signals Regiment. In 2020, LT Milner completed her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. The topic of this research was cyber-enabled foreign influence and interference, with a focus on Australia’s approach to defining both influence and interference. LT Milner’s research interests also includes online inauthentic behaviour, political tribalism, and the geopolitics of cyberspace. … Emma …

Future Land Warfare Essay Collection Foreword Change is hard. As Army’s Future Land Warfare, we contest ideas, encourage discourse and propose concepts that are often not to the satisfaction of every faction, agenda, or interest-group focused on the generation of land power as part of the Australian Defence Force. It is for this reason that the selected essays, written by members of the Australian Army Research Centre, the Australian Army History Unit, the Robotics and Integrated Technologies …

The question is not whether the future of warfare will be filled with autonomous, AI-driven robots, but when and in what form. [1] Robotic and autonomous systems, colloquially known as RAS, offer significant potential in the joint force logistic effort that extends from the national support base along lines of communication to frontline use. Industry has been employing automation and autonomy for some time, yet Australian Defence Force (ADF) adoption of such technologies has been evolutionary and somewhat …

The mid 20th century definition of ‘jointery’ used by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) is increasingly anachronistic. It no longer matches the ADF’s recent operational experience or its anticipated future requirements. Warfare in the 21st century demands that Australia’s defence capabilities—and therefore the joint force—expand to cover two relatively new domains: information and cyber, and space. Much of Australia’s core expertise and capability in these new domains lies outside the ADF. This challenges …

Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill is an Army officer who works in the Future Land Warfare Branch of Army Headquarters. He has served operationally in Somalia, Mozambique, Iraq and Afghanistan. His PhD (UNSW 2013) examined contemporary counterinsurgency strategy. … Mark …

Major Brenton T Day is currently employed as the MA to Deputy Commanding General for Operations – United States Army Central. His previous experience includes postings as SO2 for Concepts of Employment, Future Land Warfare Branch at Army Headquarters, and 2IC 161 Reconnaissance Squadron, 1st Aviation Regiment. Brenton is an Army Aviator with over six years of attack and reconnaissance aviation experience. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, has attended the United States Marine Corps …

Colonel Robin Smith is the inaugural Director of the Army’s Robotic & Autonomous Systems Implementation & Coordination Office (RICO) within Future Land Warfare Branch of the Australian Army HQ. RICO leads concept development around emerging and disruptive technology, including autonomy and AI, Quantum Technologies and alternative power and energy. He has overseen Army’s exploration of autonomous systems since 2017 after he authored the Australian Army Robotic and Autonomous Systems Strategy. He is a …

Major Jan Lim is the Junior Operations Research Systems Analyst, Land Warfare Laboratory at Army Headquarters. Prior to pursuing operations research, Jan’s background was in engineering and project management, and has contributed to various projects in the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group. Jan is a graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School Operations Research program and also holds a Master of Engineering Science in Project Management from the University of New South Wales. … Jan …

Lieutenant Colonel Mark D Tutton leads the Land Warfare Laboratory to conduct complex problem framing, experimentation, data and systems analysis, and  perations analysis and assessment. Before taking up this position, he was head of plans at the United States Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, responsible for the development and implementation of Sea Dragon – The Marine Corps service experimentation plan. He is a graduate of the Australian Defence College and holds a Master of Military and Defence …

The content in this article is an extract of  Spotlight Brief 3/21 . Ansar Al-Sunna Mozambique: Is It the Boko Haram of Southern Africa? Journal of Applied Security Research – Feb 21 Australia’s national security attention rightly often focuses to the north. Increasingly, our use of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ to describe of region of interest requires greater awareness of the Indian Ocean region and security concerns within and around it. This includes awareness of Africa, where Great Power competition is playing …