MAJGEN Gus McLachlan AO (Retd) shares his thoughts on how to best approach force structure to gain a winning advantage.

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

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

02 September 2018 Since the end of the Cold War, Western air operations and training  have been built on wresting control of the air over...

18 February 2018 During 2017, a major war on the Korean Peninsula became a distinct possibility. As the rhetoric over North Korea’s...

#DEFAus17 is the key event for the Australian Defence Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF), affiliated with the US and UK branches as well as the Kiwi

The integration of manned and unmanned systems may be the next step in the evolution of air operations. In this post, Donald Woldhuis and...

Military exercises provide an opportunity to observe how Defence doctrine is put into action in the field. Here, Flight Lieutenant Emily...

This week saw the Australian Defence Force (ADF) undertake its largest amphibious landing since the Second World War as part of its...

When it comes to prioritising jointness, Air Force’s history isn’t great. Perhaps it’s time for the RAAF to appreciate that, for its...

Are Western defence forces obsessed with platforms at the expense of technological innovation? According to a recent history of the US’s...

One of the key ways of improving air-land integration in the Australian Defence Force is through the conduct of effective joint...