This is the final part of the four part series of articles exploring the future ready Royal Australian Artillery and how Australia's Gunners will maintain stride with peer fighting forces around the globe. This fourth part looks at the potential future of Australia's artillery combat capability, focusing on ground-based air and missile defence, surveillance and target acquisition.

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.