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Nicolas Johnston has a master’s degree from the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW Canberra). He received his BA in Political Science and International Comparative Studies from Duke University, North Carolina. … Nicolas Johnston …
Major Marshall Lawrence is an infantry officer and has twice served as a mentor working with the Afghan National Army. He holds a Master of Business from the University of New South Wales and a Master of Science in the Art and Science of Warfare from the National Defence University, Islamabad. He is a recent graduate of Pakistan Command and Staff College, Quetta, and speaks Pashto and Urdu with varying degrees of success. He is currently posted to Army Headquarters. … Marshall …
Captain Nicholas Allen is a RAEME Officer in the Australian Army who has served in the 1st Combat Service Support Battalion, in the Warrant Officer and Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, and in Headquarters Joint Operations Command as Staff Officer Grade 3—Operational Contracting. He has worked closely with DGLAND, JLC and CASG at the tactical level while platoon commander / operations lieutenant on Force Support Unit 7 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, as well as while working in the operational level at …
The Australian Army operates as a total force, integrating personnel from a range of service categories (SERCATs) in order to generate the capabilities required to win the land battle. The re-introduction of the rank of 2nd Lieutenant for General Service Officers (GSO) whose ab initio training is the Part-Time Officer Commissioning Course (PTOCC), will enable superior alignment of foundation workforce capabilities across the total force, and create a cogent framework for the conditions-based development of …
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War Gray zone conflict must be understood in fundamentally different ways from major warfare. - Michael Mazarr, Mastering the Gray Zone The international system, like any dynamic system, is always in a state of flux. Forces of change, whether we are conscious of it or not, are continuously shaping the environment inside and outside nations. Nations respond to these changes in different ways. One significant area of …
Abstract Emerging challenges that are beyond the capability and intent of terrorist actors will require changes to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) counterterrorism (CT) enterprise. The ADF has been developing specialist CT capabilities since the Sydney Hilton bombing in 1978, 1 and has applied these skills to pronounced effect in many international theatres, including East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. However, recent operations have seen a transfer of those skills from the special operations force (SOF) …
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organisation; that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organisation’s view of its self and its environment. - Edgar Schein Abstract The way the Australian Army uses the term ‘warfighter’ as part of its contemporary culture undermines its joint warfighting philosophy by generating disharmony between the elements of fighting power and the external environment. This ultimately …
Abstract Army’s ‘Accelerated Warfare’ framework promotes the notion of constant change, technological disruption, and the contest of ideas which ultimately should encourage us to innovate. Advanced manufacturing is one of many areas where we may be able to do this. At present, there is an inherent lack of organisational agility to design, prototype and test innovative proposals within Army. There are also some very real constraints in the supply chain, specifically getting quick access to repair parts, …