The CDLE Leadership Paper 2-2008 is Warrant Officer Class One, Kevin Woods’ CSC, OAM, account of leadership from a solider’s point of view. In this paper WO1 Woods covers aspects of leadership around compassion, risk aversion, honest reporting, micro-management, and moral courage,

Keynote speech by Dr Charles Edel, Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

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The CDLE Leadership Paper 2-2018 is Anne Goyne and the CDLE team addressing issues around negative leadership. The paper is couched in terms of a range of events including the JEDI Council, the ADFA skype incident, the F111 deseal/reseal, the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART) and the associated findings, which relate to many negative experiences of ADF personnel. The paper goes on to explore why the ADF culture has such negative leadership experiences and what to do about it.

Modern military theory and practice divides war into three distinct and hierarchical levels: the strategic, operational, and tactical.

Australian Defence Force – Philosophical – 0 Command, Edition 1 is issued for use by the Australian Defence Force and is effective forthwith. This publication supersedes ADF-P-0 Command and Control, Edition 2.