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The AARC holds several archived papers and reports on land warfare topics of contemporary and historical significance. These include publications from the AARC's predecessor organisation, the Land Warfare Studies Centre. … Other Papers in the AARC Collection …

Reflections from the Chief of Army’s Honours Program In a previous blog , I wrote about the importance of maintaining a reflexive practice in our everyday lives. In an academic context, reflexive practice is the process that enables researchers to understand their biases and influences. I observed that this practice is necessary when undertaking qualitative research because it provides the researcher with insights into the potential for these biases and influences to distort their individual efforts at …

Laser Technology Applications in Critical Sectors: Military and Medical Journal of Electronic Voltage and Application – Jun 21 This article summarises laser technology applications in the military and medical sectors. A laser is a device that emits a focused beam of light by stimulating the emission of electromagnetic radiation. This article initially surveys the various contemporary applications of lasers and presents a timeline for developing this technology. It then outlines the various roles that …

Associate Professor Kevin Foster is Head of the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne. Educated in the UK, Canada and Australia, he has conducted original research with the Australian, British, Canadian, Dutch, US and Israeli militaries. He has published widely on the representation of war, military-media relations, the cultural history of the military, national identity and combat photography. His work has appeared in a range of national and …

Lieutenant Riley Bradford is an Australian Army Aviation officer currently undergoing basic pilot training. Riley holds a Bachelor of Arts (Chief of Defence Force Program) in Indonesian and International Politics Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in International Political Studies. In 2020 whilst posted to the Australian Army Research Centre they completed a research thesis entitled “Australia’s Securitisation of Climate Change in the South Pacific”. Their primary research interests are …

Force Design Organizational transformation: Handling the double-edged sword of urgency Long Range Planning – Mar 21 Traditional change models require organisations to develop a wide sense of urgency. For example, for Defence the rapid growth of the threat from improvised explosive devices saw an equally rapid change in equipment, training, and tactics. Unfortunately, urgency tends to generate a more conservative mindset where people are more likely to seek incremental alteration and seek to reduce errors. …

Military Loyalty as a Moral Emotion Armed Forces and Society – Jul 21 Loyalty is one of the cornerstones of the ADF and its operation. It is ‘known’ to be essential; however, the concept of loyalty in a military setting remains understudied. The authors of this study layout a theoretically informed, empirically supported analysis of what loyalty actually means for soldiers. The authors discern three core themes from their study. The first is that reciprocity is a key component of loyalty. The personnel …

In Part 1 of this series , Dan Kealy drew attention to one of the great themes of urban warfare literature - that city fighting is uniquely, excessively bloody. This article charts the development of this theme from World War II to the present and argues that it manifests a core challenge to the achievement of successful urban operations – specifically, force protection. The dilemma of ‘prophylactic high explosive’ A recurring observation throughout urban warfare literature is that lessons have to be …

‘ Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire and threaten the  threatener ’ Fast forward to the year 2033 and Army has undergone unprecedented organisational transformation due to disruption realised by Intelligent Robots and Autonomous Systems ( iRAS ). The initial reticence to fully embrace these new technologies for the application of force was eventually substituted by an urgency to acquire it once nation states began operating first-generation iRAS during the late-2020s.   It was determined that   not …