Working with Government and Ministers
(-) Strategic Logistics/sustainment
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(-) Future Operating Concepts
(-) Joint Professional Military Education
Management and Business in Defence
(-) JPMET Level 5 – National Security Leadership
Australia's Military Strategic Challenges – Close to Home
The 16 September 2021 announcement of an enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) confirmed beyond any remaining doubt that the Australian Government considers its strategic environment to have permanently changed. The 2020 Defence Strategic Update presaged the announcement by highlighting a number of developments which had swiftly altered the strategic landscape of the Indo-Pacific region since the publication of Australia's 2016 Defence White Paper.
Chris Watson
Three words that conjure dangerous oversimplification
The Defence Strategic Update of 2020 provided three words that neatly encapsulate Government's strategic objectives. The words also capture the raison d'etre of the Australian Defence Force and the tasks it is likely to execute in a period of 'the most consequential strategic realignment since the Second World War'.[1]
Simon Hunter
How Australia's ethical failures with Timor-Leste should inform a future shaping strategy for the Indo-Pacific
Australian military planners are grappling with a grey-zone Chinese shaping strategy that threatens to disrupt[1] 'stability, security and sovereignty'[2] in the Indo-Pacific. China's strategy utilises a whole-of-government approach to influence competitors and potential partners through all means short of war.
Daniel-Thomson
Defining 'Right': What are the ADF's Ethics?
Andrew Stokes
The shifting sands of war
Familiar concepts of energy, strategy and territory are undergoing a transformation in the new geopolitical frontline of virtual space where intellectual sovereignty is becoming critical. The fight is no longer chiefly over what lies under the sand, but what strategic power can be derived from the sand itself. Australia must reconsider what it means to supply the world with raw material.
Zac Rogers
ADF Concept for Command and Control of the Future Force
by DL Johnston, AO Vice Admiral, RAN
Vice Chief of the Defence Force
Why "To Change an Army" Still Matters
A short piece on why the 1983 article by General Don Starry retains contemporary relevance to future-focused, adaptive national security institutions.
COMADC Mick Ryan