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The British operation in Sierra Leone is regarded as a rare success for Western military intervention. In the popular narrative, British paratroopers deployed to Freetown over a weekend and, through a mix of professionalism, organisation and chutzpah, ‘[saved] the UN from disaster and [hastened] the end of an exceptionally nasty war.’ As Alex Renton later wrote for the Observer: ... the Sierra Leone intervention worked – uniquely well, in the history of modern military interventions in Africa. The rebel …
An Army in Motion It is my great privilege to be your Chief of Army. The Army of today is in great shape and will continue its journey of improving and adapting. There is always more to do as the context and needs of the future continually change. We are an Army in motion. Here I outline my initial approach for thinking about ourselves. I invite you to engage with and help further develop these ideas, framed around four command themes: Preparedness, People, Profession and Potential. Australia’s Army The …
Major Cate Carter is an Intelligence Officer and the Managing Editor of the Australian Army Journal. She has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of Queensland and is currently a Defence PhD candidate in the field of Armed Forces and Society. Major Carter’s thesis concerns the relationship between the ADF and the Australian public. … Cate …
‘ In a few years robots will move so fast you will need a strobe light to see them’ Robots and Autonomous Systems (RAS) seem set to transform the way we live, but while military drones have been a key feature of modern conflict for some time, they appear poised to generate more advanced capability in context of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), which is attracting increasing investment . We are now witnessing early attempts to merge RAS technologies with AI and ML …
Dr Joyobroto Sanyal is a former Marie Curie Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. For his PhD, Dr Sanyal analysed the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, with a particular focus on EU–Russia and EU–China relations. In 2017, Dr Sanyal joined the Australian Army Research Centre as lead researcher on Army’s Towards an Army STEM Strategy report, following a period of association with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. He has published in the Security Challenges …