Williams Foundation Blog

The RAAF and EW

by Steve Rossiter

I’m sitting here on a weather day in the Middle East reading Australian Aviation magazine’s publication of the Williams Foundation’s comment on EW in Offensive Air Operations.

What piqued my interest was the last paragraph in the AA article, stating the Foundation’s support for RAAF Growlers. It seemed an oversimplified comment that lacked appreciation of the RAAF’s actual capabilities.

Air Power and the Future of the ADF
 

by Jim Molan

The greatest concern that I have over the ending of the war in Iraq and the imminent ending of the war in Afghanistan is that the wrong lessons will now be learnt by Australia. If we come out of this, as we did out of Vietnam, by thinking such wars are “unwinnable” while congratulating ourselves on our tactical competence and blaming all bad things on our allies, then we will have failed one of the biggest tests of these wars.