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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.
Read<15 min05/05/2022 -
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?
Read<15 min27/04/2022 -
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 -
Book Review: Dare to Lead, by Brené Brown
Brené Brown has been researching vulnerability, shame and resilience for two decades. Her TED talk on “The power of vulnerability” has 37 million views and is one of the five most watched. Her latest book Dare to Lead draws on her consulting and personal experience, teaching and evaluating the “Brave Leaders” course and interviewing 150 global C-level leaders to unpack the ingredients of brave leadership and courageous organizations.
Read<15 min13/04/2022 -
Lead SelfBook Review: Military Virtues
Today’s soldiers navigate complex ethical dilemmas. They face new threats and often carry unprecedented potential for destructive power. An unfortunate series of ethical failures in recent conflicts, by members of Western military forces has raised the need for improved military ethics training. As military commanders scramble to correct such failings, so too is the need to identify what moral resources are required for soldiers to choose; right over wrong, justice over injustice, virtue over non-virtuous.
Read<5 min02/03/2022