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Rethinking Strategies in Modern Urban ConflictsThe increasingly blurred line between state and non-state actors in tight urban warfare zones requires allied forces to have clearly defined and fully informed communication and command chains to minimise unintended consequences.
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Defining ‘Right’: What are the ADF’s Ethics?
This essay will discuss the structure of the ADF’s, through the lens of Army’s experience, espoused ethics, and argue that the ADF’s discourse must move from normative ethics to applied ethics.
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How Australia’s ethical failures with Timor-Leste should inform a future shaping strategy for the Indo-Pacific
Australian military planners are grappling with a grey-zone Chinese shaping strategy that threatens to disrupt ‘stability, security and sovereignty’ in the Indo-Pacific.
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Shinigami
In a desolate warzone, a lone soldier battles not just enemies but the haunting emptiness of modern warfare—this gripping poem delves into survival, humanity, and the loss of camaraderie.
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The Peril of Extremes: on moral relativism and ethnocentrism
‘Culture’ should never be allowed to justify blatant breaches of human dignity.
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Civil-Military Relations in Australia: Past, Present and Future
Read<30 min22/11/2021