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Dr Colin Cockroft is a Senior Principal Engineer and Engineering Fellow at QinetiQ and Engineers Australia. He holds a PhD in hydrogen-based transport, and master’s and honours degrees in electronics and communications engineering. Colin has 20 years’ experience in Defence in special forces and conventional units. He has held senior engineering positions in several defence companies and co-founded an energy consultancy that provided project development services to defence and non-defence clients. In his …

Colonel Robin Smith OBE, CSC is a military officer with significant recent experience in the application of emerging and disruptive technology, including the foundation of the Army’s Robotic & Autonomous Systems Implementation & Coordination Office. He is currently working in Headquarters Space Command. … Robin …

  Chief of Army’s Foreword Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Chief of Army Professional Study Guide. The Australian Army is at once a national institution, a profession and a fighting force, which has proudly served our nation since its federation in 1901. This study guide contributes to maintaining the health of the Army profession. Our profession is expressed through three pillars: our jurisdiction (the unique service that we provide for the society we serve), our expertise (the professional body of …

Essays in Honor of Colin S Gray   Air University Press , 2022, 233 pp ISBN: 9781585663217 Written By : Donovan C Chau Reviewed By : Gabrielle Taylor   There is one name more synonymous with the modern study of strategy – Colin Gray. Indeed, he was one of his generation's most influential strategic thinkers who profoundly affected how scholars and practitioners understand war, strategy, and military education.  Strategy Matters: Essays in Honor of Colin S Gray , edited by Donovan C Chau, is both a tribute …

Major Gabrielle Taylor is a Military Police Officer in the Australian Army. She has served as an operations officer for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and as a mentor at the Afghanistan National Army Officers Academy. She is a graduate of the Australian Command and Staff Course, and has been awarded a Bachelor of Business, Master of Project Management, Master of Strategic People Management, and a Master of Military and Defence Studies, specialising in Operational Art. Major Taylor currently …

Executive Summary The ongoing conflict in Ukraine, originating with the Russian invasion in 2014 and escalating significantly following the full-scale invasion in February 2022, has exerted a profound influence on global security dynamics as well as on the future direction of war. While the likelihood of achieving a peaceful resolution by 2025 remains remote, the war has offered invaluable insights into contemporary warfare, specifically in the areas of advanced technological applications, strategies for …

MAJGEN Mick Ryan spent 35 years in the Australian Army and commanded at troop, squadron, regiment, task force and brigade levels. He served in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. Mick has published three books since 2022: War Transformed (2022), White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan (2023), and The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire (2024). Mick is a strategic advisor to several companies including U.S. drone company Skydio, the Washington DC-based Special Competitive Studies Project, …

Army Research Scheme The Army Research Scheme for 2025 is now open. Application Details can be found on AusTender at ATM View - AARC-ARS-03-2025 Independent researchers and research organisations are invited to register to be part of the Army Research Network that will group researchers/organisations in their speciality under the broad scope of Army’s interests being:   State of the Australian Army Profession The analysis of the past, present and future state of the State of the Australian Army Profession …

The Prussian-German Origins and Application of Mission Command Introduction Part of the problem for any military absorbing or adopting a foreign concept or methodology is that the significance and meaning are consciously or unconsciously filtered organisationally and culturally to become at best a hybrid of the original. Imported ideas can also clash with existing culture, while challenging long-established norms, resulting in compromises that pervert the original intention. The Anglo-American world’s …

Debating the Australian Army Profession In the long history of the Australian Army, there has been no significant, holistic study of the Australian Army profession, past, present or future. [1] This is an awkward statement in an introductory article to a special themed edition of the Australian Army Journal (AAJ), a publication which for 10 years (2003–2013) bore on its title page the phrase ‘For the Profession of Arms’. [2] It is rendered all the more uncomfortable by recalling that the army profession …