By prioritising major conflict, the 2023 Defence Strategic Review leaves the ADF underprepared for the most certain national security challenge ahead: climate change.
Moving into junior leadership roles, personnel at this level will begin leading small teams and be expected to lead leaders by the later stages of the level. Initial exploration of transformational leadership theories will evolve into more mature transformational approaches.
Both written and oral skills develop commensurate with greater leadership responsibilities. Personnel at this level are expected to be competent in communicating effectively across the range of Service writing documents and common delivery formats.
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Own Domain AwarenessMoral Machines on the Battlefield: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Held Accountable?When machines help decide who lives and who dies on the battlefield, the hardest question is no longer what AI can do—but who answers when it gets it wrong.
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Own Domain AwarenessQuantum Statecraft: A New Narrative for International RelationsClassical international relations can no longer keep pace with a VUCA world. What if the next evolution in statecraft begins with quantum thinking?
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Complicated ProblemsThe Country With No Clothes: We Must Improve Our Strategic Rhetoric - Part 2The so-called rules-based international order is not a system that constrains power, the author argues, but a persuasive myth that disguises how power actually works—and risks leaving Australia strategically naked when the illusion finally fails.
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Complicated ProblemsPerspectives – Case Study 1<30 min09/02/2026