Military Management | The Runway

As a topic of Program Wirraway, Military Management focuses on promoting professionalism through up-skilling in the broad areas of management, organisational and cultural competence, attitudes, values and ethics, resilience, and strategies to be employed as you navigate the complex Defence systems as you navigate military and civilian organisational systems throughout your career. Military management involves efficiently coordinating resources and personnel within the armed forces to achieve mission objectives. It requires effective planning, organization, and direction of military activities while promoting accountability and teamwork. Strong decision-making skills, adaptability, and fostering professional growth are essential. Military management is vital for maintaining readiness and ensuring successful mission accomplishment.

Military Management

How to make military decision-support software reliable when comms go down

Local processing, national control, traceable reasoning and conspicuous degradation are proposed as certification requirements. Together, they would preserve operational judgement, accountability and coalition interoperability when jamming, strikes, sabotage or cable failures isolate commanders.

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US military jamming disrupted medical plane's GPS system before crash

Military GPS-jamming exercises can create serious risks for civilian aviation when navigation disruption, poor visibility and inadequate safeguards coincide. The New Mexico crash highlights the need for stronger coordination and risk controls around electronic warfare testing.

Zodiac small watercraft Shoalwater Bay Training Area.

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Integrating the five domains for a stronger ADF

Greater integration across maritime, land, air, space and cyber capabilities can create stronger combined effects — but success depends on having the right people, resources and systems working together. Effective resource use supports Defence's social licence.

No 1 Expeditionary Health Squadron Role 2 Bravo capability.

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Defence fortifies deployable health capability

Modern military operations depend on more than combat power. A $421 million investment is giving the ADF a mobile clinical system capable of delivering hospital-level treatment, surgery and intensive care in austere environments.

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Everyone is learning the wrong lessons from Ukraine’s drone war

The war has demonstrated that military advantage comes not from the best drone, but from an adaptive innovation ecosystem that integrates technology, human judgment, industry, doctrine, and battlefield feedback to continuously improve capabilities.

HMAS Brisbane fires a Tomahawk

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Missiles worth $40 million a shot rack up America's Iran war costs

The conflict highlights a growing sustainability problem — sophisticated weapons can provide effective protection, but limited stocks, high costs and lengthy production times constrain future options. "Qualitative edge will always allow us to win" is a fallacy.

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How to deal with a micromanager

Micromanagement can undermine employee confidence and workplace performance, often driven by managerial uncertainty rather than capability concerns. Establishing clear expectations, proactive communication and consistent delivery can rebuild trust while enabling effective delegation and professional growth.

HMAS Dechaineux Kakadu Fleet Review.

Military Management

South Korea Can Now Help AUKUS

The author argues Canada's submarine decision creates opportunity for Australian capability planning. A mixed submarine fleet may provide greater long-term operational flexibility. The accompanying commentary highlights the complexity, costs and the workforce demands of the proposal.

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Exercise Austral Shield to test ADF

The exercise will test the ADF’s ability to protect Australia against domestic security threats by integrating military and civilian agencies to strengthen national resilience, critical infrastructure protection and whole-of-government crisis response.

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National Security’s No-Fail Problem

This US-based author argues organisations that rely too heavily on jargon and manufactured urgency risk weakening judgement, accountability and honest communication, making it harder to distinguish genuine priorities from routine administrative pressure.