Military Management

Mariners first: rebuilding Australia’s navy for war at sea

Australia’s navy must shift from peacetime habits to warfighting at sea, placing mariners first, reshaping structure, training, promotion, and pay; because history shows forces built for peace do not adapt fast enough when war comes.
5 minutes
Air & Space Power

US Navy pilots’ drone warfare upgrade

Crews can now control multiple autonomous systems at once; boosting decision speed, coordination, and reach while reducing risk. This highlights how simulation-led teaming can reshape how complex tasks are planned and executed.
3 minutes
Communication & Cognition

When the war is over: The limits of civilian storytelling

Civilian-led war stories favour sentiment and distance over lived experience—muting serving voices, narrowing understanding of service, and reinforcing comfort narratives that replace direct engagement with ordinary professionals who carry both imagination and responsibility.
4 minutes
Technology & Innovation

Virtual Flag: Coalition enhances global partnerships, interoperability, and readiness

A large, virtual exercise showed coalition teams can fight as one across air, space, cyber, and land; proving distributed command, shared understanding, and trust are essential to ready against a peer threat.
5 minutes
Strategic Influence

Pushed around by China, Australia is not a serious middle power

Repeated pressure without consequence signals weakness. When hostile acts meet statements instead of costs, boundaries erode—encouraging bolder behaviour and shrinking strategic space, credibility, and freedom of action in an increasingly contested region.
3 minutes
Army Law Corps
Strategic Influence

Geoffrey Robertson believes international law is failing us – but the solutions are unclear

Recent examples out of Ukraine, Gaza, Myanmar, Sudan and Venezuela highlight the failure of International Law. Aggressors have found ways to legally justify their crimes through skewing the law and justice, utilising politics and ideology.
4 minutes
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