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Book review: Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War, by Joan Beaumont
What impact did the Great War have on Australia—both on the battlefield and the home front? Broken Nation unpacks the battles, myths, and deep societal scars left behind.
Read<15 min05/05/2022 -
Book Review: Stopping Military Suicides, by Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer TaylorVeteran suicides number 500 in Australia over the last two decades, overshadowing 41 combat deaths. This is the context of the urgent need for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. Statistics suggest the scale of the issue but it gets starkly personal when we know or have supported someone who has taken their own life or thought about it.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Military Strategy a Casualty of Successive Restructures
This article will trace the history of organisational changes within Defencethat have resulted in an enterprise once capable of both defence and military strategy to one now focused on defence strategy.
Read<30 min27/04/2022 -
Book Review: Leadership Secrets of the Australian Army by Brigadier Nicholas Jans (Ret’d) OAM
What makes Australian Army leadership unique, and what lessons can leaders in any field learn from its principles and practices?
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Book Review: Beyond Combat, edited by Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson
What happens beyond the battlefield? Beyond Combat explores the untold stories of military life, from training and family support to nutrition, remembrance, and peacetime engagement.
Read<15 min27/04/2022