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Abstract In an era of fiscal constraint and competing priorities across and external to the Defence portfolio, Army modernisation efforts are challenged by a number of financial and capability pressures. Ranging from the increased cost of technological sophistication in our equipment to the exclusion of capability replacements under the Defence Integrated Investment Program (IIP), these challenges have a dual and compounding impact on Army’s modernisation. Future equipment may consequently be inadequately …
Abstract In May 2017, Islamist insurgents laid siege to the city of Marawi in the Mindanao region of southern Philippines. This siege led to a five-month campaign by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to retake Marawi and restore order to the region. The experiences of the AFP have broad relevance to the Australian Army across a number of corps and disciplines, including close combat, offensive support, mobility and survivability, urban sniping and counter-sniping, and logistics. The aim of this …
Abstract This article invites readers to contribute to a professional debate about the capability required for urban operations: does Australia have it—and does Australia need it? In exploring what that might mean, it starts from an accepted position that urban operations are increasingly likely. It examines in some detail the nature of the limitations imposed on military operations by urban terrain, which is particularly important in understanding the dependence on the use of firepower to conduct …
Introduction As the world lurches from one crisis to another, lessons learned from past crises are easily forgotten. In this vein, we can draw useful insights from Operation COVID-19 Assist (OCA) for future domestic operations and for their wider relevance to issues concerning operational readiness. Indeed, the shifting strategic climate referenced in the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) begs the question whether the Australian Defence Force (ADF) should be involved in a domestic emergency on the scale of …
Professor (Colonel) Tim Inglis is a Medical Microbiologist with the Western Australian state pathology service (PathWest), has academic appointments with the Schools of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Western Australia, and has a Translation Fellowship with the Western Australian Country Health Service and is lead investigator on an NHMRC IDEAS grant (2021/GNT2012074). He has served as a specialist medical officer with the Army Medical Corps since 2002, including on Operation Solania, …
Book Review: Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War
Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War Written by: Jonathan Fennell Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 9781139380881, 966pp Reviewed by: Dr William Westerman There is an unfortunate tendency with some writers of popular-level military history to produce big books that say very little—at least, very little that is original or insightful. Jonathan Fennell’s Fighting the People’s War is a towering example of what can and should be done with a …
