Marcus Hellyer’s article ‘Army must adapt to evolution in its military purchases’, published in The Australian earlier this month, reveals a number of serious problems with the prevailing wisdom about Australia’s defence. Invoking the obsolescence …
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On 8 August 1918, the British Fourth Army, with French support, attacked astride the Somme River on the Western Front. Germany’s de facto commander-in-chief, General Erich Ludendorff, famously labelled the Amiens offensive, as it is …
As the Defence Department prepares to spend $10–15 billion buying the modern equivalent of the armoured knight, in the shape of 450 infantry fighting vehicles, it risks committing the army’s future to a capability with …
[D]iplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail. —John F. Kennedy, 16 November 1961 [A] more strategic and integrated approach to International Engagement and security cooperation must be a core …
It didn’t take long for incoming Chief of the Australian Defence Force, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, to find himself the centre of sharp controversy. Even before his feet are beneath his new desk, Campbell—who endured …