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Major Will Viggers has served in the Australian Army for 21 years as a RAEME officer, and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in management from UNSW at ADFA. He completed a master’s degree in political and social science at the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas while attending the French War College. It was during these studies that he decided to further examine this topic, after forming an opinion that Western doctrine did not satisfactorily define the ‘levels of war’. … Will …
Major James Roberts is the Officer Commanding of the 5th Royal Australian Regiment, Logistics Company. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College and has served in regimental, staff and command positions across 1st, 3rd and 7th Brigades. He is an accomplished Indonesian linguist, having won the Australian National Tournament in 2018. He is an advocate of modernisation and contributed to the recent winning pitch at the 2019 Defence Entrepreneurs Forum (DEFAus19) to introduce a deployable 3D printing and …
Captain Toni Pachernegg is a part-time Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps officer and works full-time as an Assistant Director in the Department of Defence. She is undertaking her Masters in Strategic People Management at the University of New South Wales and has an interest in understanding the dynamics of organisational design and culture to increase performance in organisations. Toni Pachernegg is currently posted to Sydney University Regiment. … Toni …
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Denner has served for 20 years as a regular and reserve officer. He is currently the Commanding Officer of Queensland University Regiment, and has operational service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds the degrees of Bachelor of Management and Professional Studies and Master of Management. … Scott …
Major Nathan Bradney is an intelligence officer with a particular interest in violent extremism. Currently based at the Pentagon, he is a liaison officer within the United States Joint Staff with a focus on global counterterrorism. He holds a Masters of Strategy and Security and is completing a Masters of Special Operations and Irregular Warfare, both through the University of New South Wales, Canberra. … Nathan …
Colonel Martin White is a Canberra-based Army officer with previous operational experience in Timor Leste, Iraq and Afghanistan. He has recently been awarded a PhD from Latrobe University. … Martin White …
The dawn of a new financial year brought the release of the 2020 Defence Strategic Update (DSU) and its companion, the 2020 Force Structure Plan. Released as a ‘ guide for our nation through one of the most challenging times we have known since the 1930s and the early 1940s.’ The DSU dictates adjustments to Australia’s strategic defence posture to tackle a scale of regional change described as the ‘most consequential strategic realignment since the Second World War’. While the ‘C’ word of 2020 must sadly …
Military Strategy. Professor Peter Roberts, Director Military Sciences at RUSI, leads a wide ranging discussion with Frank Hoffman , in a podcast format. A recent symposium addressing the topic of austerity in the face of U.S. DoD budget cuts has elicited a number of short essays from leading American national security writers. For example, T.X. Hammes writes about an end to exquisite weapons and Steven Metz argues an expansion of the aperture through thinking big about defense budget cuts . A wiliness to …
Lieutenant Colonel Nick Brown is a General Service Officer with a regimental background in Combat Engineering. He has enjoyed a broad range postings, including a two year secondment with the United States Indo Pacific Command, Hawaii. Since completing Command and Staff College in 2015 he has been focussed almost exclusively on developing Army’s relationships with international partners and industry. He is the is current Chief of Army Scholar. … Nicholas …
We have been a favoured isle, with many natural advantages for many decades, but we have not seen the conflation of global, economic and strategic uncertainty now being experienced here in Australia and in our region since the existential threat we faced when the global and regional order collapsed in the 1930s and 1940’s. This is a sobering thought, and it’s something that I have reflected on quite a lot lately as we’ve considered the dire economic circumstances we face. That period of the 1930’s has been …
