Financial members are invited to attend our Williams Foundation Errol McCormack Lunches. Dates for 2025 are Tuesday 25 February 2025...

Dates for 2025 are Financial members and Defence personnel are invited to attend our Williams Foundation Conferences. Thursday, 22 May...

For the first post of 2021, The Central Blue welcomes Squadron Leader Matt Kelly to provide some timely advice for our Air Force readers

The Central Blue recently sought expressions of interest from passionate and dedicated Junior Officers, Enlisted or APS

Edward Luttwak is a political scientist known for his works on grand strategy, military history, and international relations. Moving to...

In his first post with The Central Blue, Mark Bell encourages our readership to engage more, and encourage reading and reflection by merely

The contest of ideas needed to drive Australian military concepts and capabilities into the future can take many forms. Unfortunately, most

The Central Blue interviewed Major General Mick Ryan, Commander Australian Defence College (ADC) about his thoughts on the importance of ...

Editorial Note: There is no doubt that people are our greatest asset and the key to fully realising a fifth-generation Air Force. We are...

Chris McInnes explores the role of cognition in warfare and asks whether we understand the types of cognition needed in the future, and what

19 August 2018 On 23 August 2018, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar on #jointstrike to discuss the imperative for...

Olsen, John Andreas (ed.) 2018, Routledge Handbook of Air Power, 1st edition, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London; New York.

Following a week that saw many Australians observe the centenary of the Battle of Hamel and debate the significance of that action, Alan Ste

n 23 August, The Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar on joint strike to discuss the imperative for an independent deterrent

In the third post of a four-part series on air power and strategy, Peter Layton reminds us that strategy is just an idea. Part One in the se

Scharre, Paul 2018, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, 1st edition, W. W. Norton & Company, New York

In the first post of a four-part series on air power and strategy, Peter Layton discusses the importance of defining objectives to strategy

In this post, Alan Stephens argues the case for military professionals to read history – not for ‘lessons’ or details, but to appreciate the

Editorial Note: Between February and April 2018, The Central Blue and From Balloons to Drones, will be publishing a series of articles that

Editorial Note: Between February and April 2018, The Central Blue and From Balloons to Drones, will be publishing a series of articles that