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4 min
The Competition Prism
11 Sep 2019
“Our traditional way that we differentiate between peace and war is insufficient …….we think of being at peace or war…our adversaries
1 min
Defence Entrepreneur’s Forum Australia 2019 -Sep30 and Oct01
28 Aug 2019
Interested in pitching or participating at the Defence Entrepreneur’s Forum Australia 2019 (#DEFAus19)?
1 min
Sir James Rowland Seminar at ADFA - 28 August 2019
26 Aug 2019
In collaboration with the Air Power Development Centre, ACSACS is pleased to announce the details of the latest Sir James Rowland Seminar.
10min
ADF Concept for Command and Control of the Future Force
23 Aug 2019
FOREWORD
by DL Johnston, AO Vice Admiral, RAN
Vice Chief of the Defence Force
5 min
Loose Lips Bring Ships: Operations Security in Operation Sovereign Borders
12 Aug 2019
OPSEC requires constant monitoring to ensure it addresses the identified vulnerabilities and mitigates the assessed risks. It may be that this needs to occur not only in the chain of command, but by Defence publications as well.
7 min
Gaming for Strategic Acumen
24 Jun 2019
Over the last few years, the subject of gaming has returned to the mainstream of professional military education around the world. Here, Darren Huxley reflects on how the Australian War College is using a common commercial board game, Diplomacy, to deepen its student's pursuit of strategic acumen.
9 min
Mental Models - Part II - Cooperation, Competition and Conflict
18 May 2019
Mental models help our thinking to creatively apply force and craft durable and comprehensive strategies. We need to lift our thinking, and our doctrine, out of the peace-war mental model and into one that acknowledges constant competition and its temporal conditions of cooperation and conflict.
8 min
Mental Models - Part I - Rethinking the Peace-War Spectrum
12 May 2019
The world is not neat. International competition is intensifying across all elements of national power including multi-instrument statecraft below the threshold of war. We need mental models to think simply about complex challenges, but that do not make us lose sight of our multi-faceted and changing world.