A detailed article on how to better develop our soldiers as tactical athletes.

In this opinion article, David Walker describes the impact of recent information management and organisational reforms within Defence's capability development sector.

Has the ADF been seduced by the availability of non-organic close air support in recent 'wars of choice' where the luxury of air superiority is assured? As a result have we lost sight of the importance of mass land based fires?

In this paper – Chess and the Modern Commander: Employing Abstract Strategy Games to Cultivate Intellectual Fighting Power, Tactical Acumen and Strategic Vision, the author explains that the Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions.

This year's Military Ethics Symposium was held at the University of New South Wales' Kensington Campus. Co-hosted by both the University of New South Wales and the Australian Army's 8th Brigade, the symposium explored the contemporary ethical challenges in warfare, including autonomous weapons systems, international humanitarian law, military training and force mobilisation.