With respect to their cities, later on, at an era of increased facilities of navigation and a greater supply of capital, we find the shores becoming the site of walled cities, and the isthmuses being occupied for the purposes of commerce and defence against a neighbour. [i] Thus wrote the Athenian, Thucydides, some two thousand years ago. Describing the geography, the demography and military status quo before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, he noted the particular situation of urbanisation along …

Matt Brown is a journalist from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who has wide experience in covering conflicts especially in the Middle East. In this presentation he relates some of his experiences in his journalistic role of bringing  news out of these conflict zones and how social media is changing how reporting is being undertaken. … Airstrikes and Twitter - Matt Brown - …

Matt Brown, Deputy Editor, International News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Between July 2012 and July 2018 Matt was based in Jerusalem and Beirut as Middle East Correspondent for the ABC. His work focused on the war on the Islamic State group and conflict and instability in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Egypt. … Matt …

Lieutenant Colonel Dayton McCarthy  is currently the Staff Officer Grade 1 Special Projects in the G5 Cell, Headquarters 2nd (Australian) Division. He served in the Australian Regular Army from 2005 to 2013 in a number of regimental, training and staff appointments. Transferring to the Army Reserves in 2014, he was the Commanding Officer of the 9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment from 2021 to 2022. A defence analyst in his civilian career, LTCOL McCarthy is the author of several books and numerous …

Dr. Albert Palazzo is an Adjunct Professor at University of New South Wales –Canberra in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He was formerly the long-serving Director of War Studies for the Australian Army. He has written more than twenty books and monographs on the art of war, including The Australian Army: A History of its Organisation, 1901–2001, The Australian Army and the War in Iraq, The Battle of Crete, and From Moltke to Bin Laden: The Relevance of Doctrine in the Contemporary Military …

The Land Power Forum papers,  The canon and four generations of warfare Parts 1, 2 and 3 , [1]  note that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: …the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first generation of modern war through the second and third generations and into the fourth. [2] …

The Land Power Forum papers,  The canon and four generations of warfare Parts 1 and 2 , [1]  note that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: …the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first generation of modern war through the second and third generations and into the fourth. [2] This …

The 2016 Land Power Forum paper,  The canon and four generations of warfare , [1]  notes that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: …the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first generation of modern war through the second and third generations and into the fourth. [2] This paper …

This paper shares planning observations from 3rd Brigade Headquarters Forward during Exercise Hamel, June - July 2016. These planning observations are summarised as  Three Cs : Communicate Command, control and battlespace Concurrent planning Context As Army’s Reset Brigade from June 2015 until July 2016, 3rd Brigade enabled Exercise Hamel Exercise Control and provided a command and control node at Cultana Field Training Area, South Australia. The 3rd Brigade’s command and control node was assigned under …

The word  canon  originated from Greek as  kanōn  (rule). Today, one definition of  canon  is ‘the list of works considered to be permanently established as being of the highest quality’. [1] In June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled  Two Marine Corps  [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the programs, budgets and policy Marine Corps], which introduced the idea of  the canon  to military professionals: … the seven books [that]…take the reader from the first …