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Smart Soldier – Inclusion helps build High-Performing Teams

This Smart Soldier article delves into how to improve trust between team members to create a high-performing team.

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LTCOL Virginia McDougall and CAPT Laura McCarthy

Soldiers from 8/9 RAR prepare to halt civilian role-players during simulated Non-combatant excavation operation a part of Exercise Ram Stallion.

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The Human Condition: Training to Fail on the Decisive Terrain of the Modern Battlefield

This article proposes that Army should incorporate more thorough civilian role play into its training scenarios.

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John Wellfare

Fresh ideas

An Army officer provides guidance to a solider during training.

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Reflections as a Troop Commander

David Bevan explores his two favourite interlinked lessons on opportunity and processes within processes – take them or leave them.

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David Bevan

Members from the Australian Defence Force's Army Logistic Training Centre conduct sandbagging activities in support of the local community in Shepparton, Victoria.

ASW

Re-Framing DACC: Deploying in an Information Environment

This article suggests that Defence Assistance to the Civil Community should be seen not just as a duty and opportunity to help the nation, but also as an opportunity to improve Defence itself.

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Dominic Dawes

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In Defence of Team Yankee: we need more stories like it

This article is a defence of the book 'Team Yankee' by Harold Coyle.

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Kim O’Grady

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