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Lead SelfA Deep Dive Into Our Tiny Recruitment PoolThe Australian Defence Force faces a tough reality—while many young Australians meet enlistment criteria, only 16% both qualify and express the desire to serve. Can recruitment keep up?
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Character Role ModelHow Instructors’ Beliefs Originate and Its Implications for Training in the ADFUnderstanding instructors' beliefs is key to unlocking the full potential of education and training within the Australian Defence Force
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Lead SelfSix Golden Rules for Media InterviewsMedia content is being consumed and produced in greater quantities than we’ve ever seen. That means your chances of being asked to step in front of the microphones and cameras are growing. This article provides six golden rules to assist those in Defence if they find themselves fronting the media.<15 min25/05/2020 -
Initial Employment CompetenceA Cadet's Introduction to Science Fiction<5 min02/03/2020
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Lead SelfMilitary AI: Chess Master or Risky Gambit?Will AI make militaries unstoppable strategists—or usher in a new era of unpredictable risks?
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Lead SelfA Deep Dive Into Our Tiny Recruitment Pool
The Australian Defence Force faces a tough reality—while many young Australians meet enlistment criteria, only 16% both qualify and express the desire to serve. Can recruitment keep up?
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Character Role ModelHow Instructors’ Beliefs Originate and Its Implications for Training in the ADF
Understanding instructors' beliefs is key to unlocking the full potential of education and training within the Australian Defence Force
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Basic Military SkillsChanges in warfare in the 16th and 17th centuries - a ‘military revolution’?The 16th and 17th century was a period of significant change in the character of war. The drivers accounting for these changes were not all based in military reforms, despite Western Europe being engaged almost continuously in war. While tactical applications is interesting, it was the beginnings of some profound changes in the development of warfare; the professional military, the standing army, scale of warfare and subsequent emergence of the state (Crown) owning the monopoly on violence and the arrival of proper naval forces.<15 min22/07/2019
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Complicated ProblemsPotential use of civilian airfields to improve resilience of air operations in Northern AustraliaAustralia’s airpower has a long reach but a fragile jaw—leveraging civilian airfields across the north may be the key to ensuring it can take a hit and keep fighting.
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Coalition Operations Political AcumenEffective Leadership in a Pandemic: What we Learned from COVID-19 (Part 2)How different leaders responded to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the varied outcomes they achieved present a valuable case study in leadership and crisis management.
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Moral LeadershipEffective Leadership in a Pandemic: What we Learned from COVID-19 (Part 1)
How different leaders responded to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the varied outcomes they achieved present a valuable case study in leadership and crisis management. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we draw on real-time observations made during the outbreak and spread of the global pandemic to learn what can be applied to military leadership during extreme circumstances.
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Basic Military SkillsBalancing the Science and Art of WarfareAs technological advances increasing automate the control of weapons, it is timely to review the skills we need in our warfare professionals. Their core skills will increasingly be maintaining SA and making decisions in confusing and evolving circumstances. We need to ensure the ‘science’ and ‘art’ of warfare are balanced.<15 min05/06/2019
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Complicated ProblemsPotential use of civilian airfields to improve resilience of air operations in Northern Australia
Australia’s airpower has a long reach but a fragile jaw—leveraging civilian airfields across the north may be the key to ensuring it can take a hit and keep fighting.
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Integrated SystemsThe Future is here! 5th Generation Air ForceThe F-35 heralds a revolution in how the ADF will fight, as units learn to integrate with 5th Generation technologies and operate as a network, leveraging stealth and information fusion. This article explores the ‘night versus day’ change, which opens the door for related opportunities including man-machine teaming and the ‘loyal wingman’ concept.<15 min27/02/2019 -
Lead CapabilityThe Value Proposition for Developing a Future Intellectual EdgeMick Ryan offers a new ‘value proposition’ for the intellectual development of military personnel for conflict in the 4th industrial revolution.<5 min28/11/2018 -
National and Military Power awarenessJournalsRecommended publications.<5 min13/11/2018
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Coalition Operations Political AcumenAustralia’s Military Strategic Challenges – Close to HomeSince the enhanced trilateral security partnership of 16 September 2021, the Australian Government has considered its strategic environment to have permanently changed.
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Lead CapabilityThe Value Proposition for Developing a Future Intellectual EdgeMick Ryan offers a new ‘value proposition’ for the intellectual development of military personnel for conflict in the 4th industrial revolution.<5 min28/11/2018
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National and Military Power awarenessJournalsRecommended publications.<5 min13/11/2018
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National and Military Power awarenessLinks to FollowTwitter feeds and podcasts to follow.<5 min13/11/2018