Mobilisation and Australia’s National Resilience …

This article comprises a reflective piece on the re-raising of 7RAR in 2006-07. BRIG Shane Gabriel was the battalion’s first CO following its re-raising, and subsequently led elements of it into Afghanistan in 2008-09 as CO of Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force – One. While the Australian Army Journal is and will remain a scholarly, peer reviewed publication, throughout its long history it has been pleased to publish such reminiscences on significant moments in Army’s history. In light of Army’s …

Space Assets, Space Data, and Space Workforce on the Ground … Mobilising Space for Army …

Overseas Plan 401 and the Interwar Australian Military Forces (1919–1939) One thing alone is of import: the point of preparation reached at the actual outbreak of war.—Ferdinand Foch [1] … Expeditionary Force Mobilisation Planning in an Age of Austerity …

Dr Thomas Richardson is a historian at UNSW Canberra. After completing his doctorate in 2014 he worked as a researcher on the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping (2015), and as a researcher on the Official History of Australian Operations in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan (2016–2018). His first book, Destroy and Build: Pacification in Phuoc Tuy, 1966–1972, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017; his second, Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa 1899–1902, will be …

Tom Hamilton is acting Deputy Secretary of the Strategic Policy and Intelligence Group in the Department of Defence. He was promoted to the position of First Assistant Secretary Strategic Policy Division in March 2016. The Strategic Policy Division develops policy, military strategy and strategic planning and advice for the Australian Government, senior Defence leaders and other government agencies on the strategic implications of defence and national security matters. Prior to this position, Mr Hamilton …

Dr Samuel White is a Senior Lecturer—School of Law at the University of Adelaide. He is the Army Fellow at the Australian War Memorial, a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New England. Samuel has served as both a Royal Australian Infantry Corps and an Australian Army Legal Corps officer in a variety of tactical, operational and strategic level postings. He currently holds the rank of Major. … Samuel …

Dr Charles Knight is a senior operations analyst conducting wargaming for land capability. He has an enduring interest in urban warfare, sparked by being tasked to prepare his UK Parachute Regiment unit to defend the German city of Hildesheim against the Soviets in the 1980s. His PhD examined coercion during counterinsurgency, and as a university lecturer he taught subjects including strategic security, unconventional/asymmetric warfare, and terrorism. He remains affiliated with Charles Sturt University …

Dr Cassandra Steer is Chair and founder of the Australian Centre for Space Governance. Globally recognised for her expertise in space governance, space law, and space security, she has published widely on these topics, including the application of the law of armed conflict and use of force in outer space. She has consulted on these issues to the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, the Australian, Canadian and U.S Departments of Defence, the Australian Space Agency and Australian Department of Foreign …

Gregory Raymond is a Senior Lecturer at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, researching South-East Asian defence, politics and foreign relations, with a focus on Thailand and the Mekong states. He convenes the ASEAN Australia Defence Postgraduate Scholarship Program for the Australian Department of Defence and is international relations editor for the journal Asian Studies Review. He is the author of Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic Accommodation (NIAS …