5 min
The Importance Of Strategically Focused Force Design
01 Apr 2019
BRIGADIER IAN LANGFORD- DIRECTOR GENERAL FUTURE LAND WARFARE
“People, Ideas, Machines…in that order!”
Colonel John Boyd
Core Areas of Study
National Security Policy and Strategy: Study the Australian Defence Force and Australia’s place in the regional and global context. Resources cover policy and strategy within the Australian Department of Defence and the broader national security community.
53:06
ADFA Presentation 2019 – General Sir Peter Cosgrove, AK, MC
28 Feb 2019
The Governor-General of Australia, General Sir Peter Cosgrove, AK, MC, addresses ADFA staff and trainees
10min
Time to Review the Rings
08 Feb 2019
Dr David Connery proposes a new way to conceive the levels of war, building on t
10min
Churchill Fellowship Report 2017
04 Feb 2019
This report highlights recommendations that represent an opportunity for the ADF to enhance capacity for coordinated joint maritime warfare planning and execution, and provide a platform for Maritime Trade Operations employment as a niche warfare capability.
3 min
ANU's support to JPME at the ACSC
24 Jan 2019
A short essay on the Military and Defence Studies Program taught by the ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the significance of ANU's research-based teaching on strategy, leadership and military history, and on the need to remain nimble minded for what happens next.
2h
First Principles Review - Creating One Defence
24 Oct 2018
The Review Team were tasked with ensuring that Defence is fit for purpose and is able to deliver against its strategy with the minimum resources necessary. Using a structured framework, the team have conducted an end-to-end holistic review based on the outcomes required of Defence and founded on the first principles agreed by the review team.
2h
Australian Interagency Preparedness Framework
24 Oct 2018
As Australia’s involvement in international response and recovery operations has increased over the past decade, so has the number of government agencies contributing specialist capabilities and expertise to these operations. In this context, the need for effective interaction and enhanced preparedness between agencies is crucial to the success and effectiveness of operations.
15m
What If Your Data Was Valued Like Currency? At This Café, It Is.
25 Oct 2018
Shiru café offers students a free coffee in exchange for personal data. The data is related to their future employment desires, their habits during work and their use of social media. The café is open in informing students that this information will be passed to employment agencies and potential employers.
2h
17 - 18 Annual Report
24 Oct 2018
This is the Secretary of Defence and Chief of the Defence Force’s performance report to the Minister for Defence, the Parliament of Australia and the Australian public for the 2017–18 financial year. The report addresses the purposes and outcomes of the Department of Defence, including the Australian Defence Force—collectively known as Defence.
30m
Leave No Dark Corner
24 Oct 2018
This article explores high-tech surveillance systems being used in China to monitor and shape its population. The technology demonstrates China’s push to become the world leader in artificial intelligence.
20m
Managing World War: The Army Service Force and General Servell’s Rules for Getting Things Done
24 Oct 2018
The high ratio of support to combat forces is indispensable in carrying out conflict where technology and material superiority is even more important than soldiers on the battlefield.
10m
Social Contracts and the Australian Civil-Military Relationship
24 Oct 2018
In Australia, troop deaths in combat remind the public of the terms of employment of Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel and raise the question of commensurate compensation. One community group is committed to the task of developing a ‘military covenant’ to articulate these terms and compensations based on the idea that the ‘unique nature’ of military service is an invocation of a social contract. But is a social contract really at the heart the Australian civil-military relationship?