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Jointly hosted by the: Australian Army Research Centre Sea Power Centre - Australia Air Power Development Centre Location: ADFA, Adams Auditorium, Canberra The Keynote address was delivered by BRIG R. Iron (UK Retd) – The Need for Speed, The Case of Operation Palliser Other topics discussed were: Instability and Climate Change The View from the Pacific Logistic readiness, how much is enough Liquid fuel supply and rapid response Tonga Case Study JAM-GC concepts, challenges and integration East Timor Case …

Paula Hanasz is a specialist in non-traditional security threats. She holds a PhD on water conflicts and cooperation from the Australian National University, Crawford School of Public Policy and a MScEcon Intelligence Studies from Aberystwyth University. Paula has consulted for many years to the Australian government on national security, defence, and public policy matters. … Paula …

One thing that occupies the minds of a lot of people in the ADF, is the future of force design. One of the key considerations for future force design is, what are the mission sets that we are preparing our people for? That's where our seminar today comes in because we're speaking about the train, advise and assist mission set. As our speaker points out, the ADF don't currently have forces specifically orientated to the mission of train, advise and assist. Instead this mission is regarded as something any …

COL Cook is the Assistant Head of Concepts, Future Force Development Branch in British Army HQ. He has served as the Battalion Commander of 148 Commando Forward Observation Battery, as CO of the 105th Regiment, Royal Artillery and has operational experience in Iraq. … James P …


Major General Justin (‘Jake’) Ellwood assumed command of 1st Division and the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters on 6 December 2018, following his appointment as Deputy Chief of Army. He graduated from the Royal Military College at Duntroon in 1990 into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps. After undertaking regimental appointments in 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, he was posted as an instructor at the Royal Military College. He subsequently served as second-in-command of a Warrior Company …

Ms Read has a background in Law and Psychology and is a corporate counsel in the Defence Technology Sector. Her ANU research applies psychological principles to understand manipulation in social media and fake news. … Emily Read …

Richard Iron was educated at the King’s School, Canterbury and the University of Cambridge. He served for 37 years in the British Army, largely spent on operations in Northern Ireland (eight tours), the Sultanate of Oman, the Falkland Islands, the Balkans and Iraq. He commanded an armoured infantry battalion in Bosnia and in Kosovo. He led a UK/US planning team in Kuwait for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was also responsible for the British Army’s subsequent analysis of the Iraq War. In addition, he was an …


LTG Sean MacFarland is a retired three-star general who served in the United States Army. In 2015 LTG MacFarland, then commanding III Corps, was selected as commander of the coalition against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. LTG MacFarland and III Corps thus became responsible for Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve. LTG MacFarland handed over command to LTG Stephen J. Townsend and the XVIII Airborne Corps in August 2016. He became deputy commanding general and chief of staff for the United …
