What is Artillery Surveillance and Target Acquisition?
… Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) is one of three … is responsible for managing the commander’s counter-fire fight … and synchronisation of target acquisition assets and effects. …
Cheap Drones and Mass Precision: The Tactical Relevance of the Australian Army in Modern Combined Arms
… of drones as cheap precision munitions. All manner and … aerial systems (UAS) have become integral to the tactical … (FPV) UAS – or drones – as precision aerial-delivered munitions. …
CoveTalk | 5 Brigade: Decision Making and Planning Process
Missed our livestream of our first CoveTalk of 2025? Watch it here as MAJGEN Mick Krause, AM presents 5 BDE the new DMPP doctrine, held at Holsworthy Officer's Mess on 25 Feb.
… superior organisational outcomes. In direct contest, many … a result. But those who use vision and inspiration to transform … and others how to communicate a vision that is compelling the …
A round peg for a round hole: a new approach to non-operational decision making
… to plan. Our capacity to plan complex operations in adverse … we approach non-operational decision making. Too often we either … experience alone to guide our decision making: the latter, in …
… and 20th Surveillance Target Acquisition were all Blue Force … battle, and the acquisition of information and … through out-thinking the enemy commander, using terrain to shield …
Ways Matrix Decisive Event Planning: Part 1- Defeat Mechanisms
The mystery of creating Decisive Events revealed. This article explains Defeat Mechanisms in accessible terms as a precursor to Using the Ways Matrix. A must read two-part article for all junior officers.
Australian Tactical Design: Development and Use of Decisive Events
… Dawson and Benjamin Gray which complements much of the material … Design: Development and use of Decisive Events' . The article … the flawed understanding of Decisive Events across the Australian …
… fail to provide the requisite feedback to both firer and … proficiency of trainees on their completion of the activity. Blank … Battle of the Bolt Actions has decisively concluded. To this end, …