Future Operating Environment
Future Operating Environment
Army's Hybrid Threat (Part Three): Knowing Your Enemy
A timely reminder that whilst Australia enjoys extended peacetime on our shores, the Army needs to consider frames for reality to ensure we are not 'training blind.'
Future Operating Environment
Australian Land Force's Vulnerability to Drone Warfare
"...the emerging threat hovers over our capability gap, waiting to fill the niche and take advantage of the opportunity we readily present to them." James Harvey paints a vivid and worrisome picture...
By James Harvey
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War machines: Can AI for war be ethical?
On 24 Feb 20 the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced a number of ethical guidelines as they continue to develop AI for battlefield use. In this article Aaron Wright looks at how four schools of...
By Aaron Wright
Future Operating Environment
Writing Competition | An Artillery Brigade
In this Cove 2020 Writing Competition entry, Pietro Ruggeri looks at a possible future of the RAA.
Future Operating Environment
Objective Force 2028
In a recent Cove article ‘Autonomous Weapon Systems for the Land Domain’, Peter Milani talked about Autonomous systems / human teaming and what it may look like. This short fictional story from Paul...
By Paul Dehnert
Future Operating Environment
Autonomous Weapon Systems for the Land Domain
In this long, well researched and very informative read, Peter Milani gives us some intelligent insight into Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) and what they could mean for the Australian Defence Force...
Future Operating Environment
Link | Battlefield singularity, AI pixie dust, and the future of war | National Security Podcast
On this National Security Podcast, Elsa Kania joins Katherine Mansted to talk about strategic competition in the age of artificial intelligence, the modernisation of China's People's Liberation Army...
By The Cove
Future Operating Environment
A force for good: A discussion of the Army’s future role in disaster relief and recovery operations
'This article aims to promote discussion among military professionals about how best the Army might posture itself to flexibly respond to disasters, while concurrently managing the need to train and...
Future Operating Environment
Bridges Papers 2020 | Future Artillery and Joint Effects
The Bridges Papers 2020 from Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery is a collection of 15 papers with a focus on future artillery and joint effects.
By The Cove
Future Operating Environment
Link | An uncertain and dangerous decade: Preparing the Army for the next ten years
This paper, from our friends and partners at the Australian Army Research Centre, examines the impact of the first half of 2020. The author argues that the Army must make a compelling argument for...
By The Cove
