‘Culture’ should never be allowed to justify blatant breaches of human dignity.

In a desolate warzone, a lone soldier battles not just enemies but the haunting emptiness of modern warfare—this gripping poem delves into survival, humanity, and the loss of camaraderie.

Australian military planners are grappling with a grey-zone Chinese shaping strategy that threatens to disrupt ‘stability, security and sovereignty’ in the Indo-Pacific. 

This essay will discuss the structure of the ADF’s, through the lens of Army’s experience, espoused ethics, and argue that the ADF’s discourse must move from normative ethics to applied ethics.

The increasingly blurred line between state and non-state actors in tight urban warfare zones requires allied forces to have clearly defined and fully informed communication and command chains to minimise unintended consequences.

Focusing upon the military idea of what a Centre of Gravity is, the article offers some background into Clausewitz's term to be able to better understand it today. The article finishes off by suggesting Clausewitz's idea of a Centre of Gravity remains relevant today and then discuses current doctrine and how military planners should be focusing upon the linking ideas of a CoG, not the idea itself.

While we may have rules of war, conventions, international treaties, and training in ethics, we can never make fighting a war clean, surgical, or romantic.