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  1. 10/15/2025

    Book Review | The Resilience Myth

    This article provides a book review of The Resilience Myth, which challenges prevailing ideas about resilience that rely too much on individual effort and unbridled optimism rather than mutual interdependence.

    8 min

  2. 10/01/2025

    The Tyranny of Distance: Where Have All My Friends Gone?

    This article advances the importance of military personnel forming real friendships to improve resilience to what may come, including the changing character of war.

    11 min

  3. 09/17/2025

    Book Review | The Ethics of Special Operations

    This article provides a book review of 'The Ethics of Special Operations' in which the authors explore ethics across four primary missions: raids, recoveries, reconnaissance, and rebels.

    14 min

  4. 09/03/2025

    Book Review | Jus Post Bellum

    A book review of ‘Jus Post Bellum: Restraint, Stabilisation and Peace’ which unpacks some failures of achieving lasting peace in conflicts since the end of the cold war and the ethics and utility of restraint, reconciliation and all that can foster justice in the aftermath of war.

    10 min

  5. 04/02/2025

    A Path to Future Ready from Google

    This article suggests using Google’s 70/20/10 innovation model as an inspiration for adopting systems within Army to increase innovation. Australian soldiers have consistently demonstrated resourcefulness and ingenuity since the formation of our service. There is even an entire book dedicated to Australian innovation in wartime. The opening quote, drawn from the previous Chief of Army’s concept of Army in Motion, challenges the Army to be both evolutionary and transformational in preparing for the future operating environment. This article, drawing on lessons learnt from Google’s approach to innovation, offers some ideas on how we can harness the ingenuity of our force to optimise the Army’s approach to meeting the future ready challenge.

    7 min

  6. 03/26/2025

    Air Defence in the Falklands War - Part 2

    The second in a two-part series exploring air defence during the Falklands War and its lessons for modern conflict. The complexities of operating in an adverse air situation, where air superiority was hardly ever achieved, and where the enemy had a considerable amount of freedom to operate, were quickly learnt but at considerable cost to the Task Force during the Falklands War.

    9 min

  7. 03/19/2025

    Air Defence in the Falklands War - Part 1

    This is the first in a two-part series exploring air defence during the Falklands War and its lessons for modern conflict. The Falklands War, fought between United Kingdom (UK) and Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, offers contemporary examples of multi-domain operations and Anti-Access/Area-Denial (A2/AD) warfare. Despite being fought 40 years ago, the lessons learned are applicable to the Australian Defence Force, specifically Army’s air defence specialists as they prepare to operate in a contested, multi-domain environment.

    9 min

  8. 10/14/2024

    Purple Chaplaincy: Supporting an Integrated Force Towards 2045

    This article explores the increasingly integrated role that chaplains undertake in the Joint Force and how it could be enhanced by 2045, by Darren Cronshaw

    13 min
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