Command Post
Planning and Liaison
Preparing our Stockholding to be Ready in a Post COVID-19 World
Much of the Army's focus is on combat preparedness, but who is thinking about whether our stockholding strategy is adequate to meet our short notice deployment needs?
Planning and Liaison
Interoperability – The Right Mindset drives Good Practice
In this article Pat Henriques looks at the three mainstays of interoperability when it comes to working with foreign Armies, information, personnel and systems.
Planning and Liaison
Electronic Warfare – Threat from a Command Post Perspective
Are we ready to wage war in the Electro Magnetic Spectrum?
Staff Skills
A round peg for a round hole: a new approach to non-operational decision making
Why do we insist on using operational planning tools to support non-operational decisions? In this article, Greg Colton proposes a new approach to non-operational decision making: the Military Staff...
Staff Functions
Defence Writing – where ideas and motivation go to die?
Aaron Thomas is frustrated by the Defence writing standards, or rather the way they are imposed. Aaron thinks that we need to have a look at the way we convey ideas up the chain of command. What do...
Staff Functions
Unit Affiliation: A New Way of Continuing to Serve
Matt Stevens explains a new initiative that operates within the extant Total Workforce Model in order to assist with retention of our most valuable asset: our people.
Staff Functions
The Failure of ‘Course of Action’ Analysis in Joint War-fighting
This article contends that predicting adversary behaviour through course of action analysis creates a false perception of certainty for a commander. A more effective approach is to use 'expectations...
Staff Functions
"Where the bloody hell are you?" The problem with our current pers tracking systems
How should we be tracking our troops on the ground? Matthew Crighton examines where we are falling short on personnel tracking systems and what we could do to improve them.
Staff Skills
Work in the time of Corona – All-Corps Major Course and working from home
The current public health environment has forced many members of the Australian Defence Force to work from home. Andrew Stokes thinks it may become the norm for some of us to continue to work from...
Staff Skills
Flirting with the Churn Curve
Military staff produce too much churn and we should stop doing this.
Staff Skills
Looking at the Military Appreciation Process
In this short video, Douglas Clark looks at the pros and cons of the Military Appreciation Process. Essential viewing for all about to undertake a career course.
Staff Skills
Cultural Reform in Middle Army – Melting Iron Colonels
'Change stalls with the Iron Colonels in Army'. Is this the case? If it is, what can we do about it? In this article, Mike Kalms and John Sayers explore what it would take to melt the iron colonels.
Planning and Liaison
Preparing our Stockholding to be Ready in a Post COVID-19 World
Much of the Army's focus is on combat preparedness, but who is thinking about whether our stockholding strategy is adequate to meet our short notice deployment needs?
Staff Skills
Work in the time of Corona – All-Corps Major Course and working from home
The current public health environment has forced many members of the Australian Defence Force to work from home. Andrew Stokes thinks it may become the norm for some of us to continue to work from...
Staff Skills
Flirting with the Churn Curve
Military staff produce too much churn and we should stop doing this.
Staff Functions
Defence Writing – where ideas and motivation go to die?
Aaron Thomas is frustrated by the Defence writing standards, or rather the way they are imposed. Aaron thinks that we need to have a look at the way we convey ideas up the chain of command. What do...
By Aaron Thomas
Planning and Liaison
Interoperability – The Right Mindset drives Good Practice
In this article Pat Henriques looks at the three mainstays of interoperability when it comes to working with foreign Armies, information, personnel and systems.
Planning and Liaison
Electronic Warfare – Threat from a Command Post Perspective
Are we ready to wage war in the Electro Magnetic Spectrum?
By Gavin Wilson
Staff Skills
Looking at the Military Appreciation Process
In this short video, Douglas Clark looks at the pros and cons of the Military Appreciation Process. Essential viewing for all about to undertake a career course.
Staff Skills
Cultural Reform in Middle Army – Melting Iron Colonels
'Change stalls with the Iron Colonels in Army'. Is this the case? If it is, what can we do about it? In this article, Mike Kalms and John Sayers explore what it would take to melt the iron colonels.
By Mike Kalms
Staff Skills
A round peg for a round hole: a new approach to non-operational decision making
Why do we insist on using operational planning tools to support non-operational decisions? In this article, Greg Colton proposes a new approach to non-operational decision making: the Military Staff...
By Greg Colton
Staff Skills
Link | So You’re Going to be a Staff Officer: Five Pieces of Advice for Success and Personal Satisfaction
Just marched in to a new position as a staff officer? Brandon Morgan's article in the Modern War Institute provides five recommendations to help you thrive in this new environment.
By The Cove
