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From September to November 1999, Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Bo was the inaugural Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Visiting Fellow at the Australian Army's 'think tank', the Land Warfare Studies Centre (LWSC), in Canberra. During this fellowship he primarily worked on issues relating to South Asian nuclear disarmament. Lieutenant Colonel Zhou was born in Hubei Province in 1963 and graduated from the PLA Air Force Engineering College in 1983. His subsequent military career has involved a wide range of …
If there is one thing on tactics courses, staff colleges and real time operations that creates arguments and leads to the fracture of plans staff quicker than a lack of coffee, it is the dreaded Centre of Gravity Analysis. Apparently, Clausewitz and the Centre of Gravity have had a divorce . Dale Eikmeier is probably right to say that the metaphors Clausewitz used may not resonate with today’s professional officers. However, this does not equate to the metaphor being a red herring. Nor does it mean the …
With over 20 years of experience as an Australian Army Officer and a Doctorate in Strategic Thinking, Leon enjoys contributing to the cultural conversation. Leon is currently consulting on strategic policy with a focus on developing organisational resilience to complexity. … Leon …
This post is the sequel to The Australian way of war: What is our military culture? It is intended as an expansion and rebuttal to Brigadier Michael Ryan’s post, The Lessons of Ukraine for the Australian Army . The war in Ukraine demonstrates that conventional land combat is a highly lethal and destructive endeavour. The Australian Army lacks the industrial capacity, personnel and logistics to sustain our current force structure in conventional land conflict, where we are almost certain to be …
