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Mr Michael Webster is a practising lawyer, former active-service military officer, and a geolegal strategist. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Australian Regular Army after twenty years as a legal officer. He had operational service in Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific regions. He has degrees in business, education, history, and the law. He is currently studying at the National Security College in Canberra. His research interests include intellectual warfare, legal warfare, Australian …
Debating the Australian Army Profession In the long history of the Australian Army, there has been no significant, holistic study of the Australian Army profession, past, present or future. [1] This is an awkward statement in an introductory article to a special themed edition of the Australian Army Journal (AAJ), a publication which for 10 years (2003–2013) bore on its title page the phrase ‘For the Profession of Arms’. [2] It is rendered all the more uncomfortable by recalling that the army profession …
Major Robert Bruce is an Australian Army Officer with over 15 years of service. He is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy with a Bachelor of History and Politics, and a Chief of Army Honours student. He is also a graduate of the Australian War College, where he graduated with a Masters in Military and Defence Studies, and was awarded the Secretary of Defence Prize for excellence in strategic thinking. … Robert …
Colonel Nick Bosio has held various command and staff appointments across tactical, campaign and strategic posts within Australia and on operations. His experience includes Chief of Campaign Plans for a 3-Star Coalition Headquarters, Commanding Officer of the 6 th Engineer Support Regiment, and Deputy Head/Director of Military Strategic Plans. Colonel Bosio holds a Bachelor of Engineering, three master’s degrees and a research doctorate (PhD) focusing on military theory, strategic studies, and systems …
Lessons from Morris Janowitz’s The Professional Soldier The concept of the profession of arms has existed for centuries. Many ancient Egyptian, Persian, Greek and Roman texts discuss generalship and soldiering. [1] The high medieval period saw extensive military research. Kings, nobles and knights all studied siege craft, fortifications, engineering, artillery and the management of armies. [2] As dominions grew in size and scope, so did scholarly works on military development and investment as a part of …
The Professional Revolution to Transform Army into an Integrated Enabler 2025 CA Essay Competition Winner Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis died in an asylum in 1865, a pariah in the European medical profession. Two decades earlier at Vienna’s General Hospital, Semmelweis had made a simple observation: the obstetric ward attended by doctors had a maternal mortality rate three times higher than the one attended by midwives. The difference? Doctors performed autopsies in addition to delivering babies, …
2025 CA Essay Competition Runner Up “Our peace strategy must formulate our war strategy, by which I mean that there cannot be two forms of strategy, one for peace and one for war, without wastage – moral, physical and material when war breaks out. The first duty of the grand strategist is, therefore, to appreciate the commercial and financial position of his country; to discover what its resources and liabilities are. Secondly, he must understand the moral characteristics of his countrymen, their history, …
The Structure of War and the Rise of the West Yale University Press, 2024, 473 pp, RRP US$40 (hardcover) Hardcover ISBN 9780300279686 Author: Williamson Murray Reviewed by: Matthew Jones Williamson Murray’s The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the Weaast offers more than a sweeping survey of Western military history. It presents a profound intellectual excavation of how war has not only followed but often propelled the ascent of Western civilisation. From the rise of bureaucratic states in …
France at War, 1939–1942 Cambridge University Press, 2023, ISBN 9781107047464, 742 pp, RRP AU$53.95 (hardcover) Author: Douglas Porch Reviewed by: John Nash One of the most fascinating aspects of the Second World War is France’s rapid defeat at the hands of Germany in mid-1940. The success of the ‘Blitzkrieg’ was a shock to many and changed the dynamics of the war. It is easy to see the fall of Paris as the end of France’s war, but this is far from the case. In the five years that followed, French …
The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy Author: Toshi Yoshihara Georgetown University Press, 2023, 176 pp, RRP USD$34.95 (softback) Paperback ISBN 9781647122829 Reviewed by: Dan Phelan Much of China’s history, from its ambition and grandeur through to its conflict with foreign powers, has come from and been tied to the maritime domain. In its conquest of and victory over the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faced the arduous task of building a navy from the ground up with …
