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The main theme of the 2026 Air and Space Power Conference was “building fighting depth” and the Aviator Symposium was “the airminded warfighter.” However, a question that came up repeatedly during the event was “what success actually looks like”? Instead of asking what success looks like now, ask what it would look like decades from now if these ideas had truly taken hold.

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Air Marshal Mel Hupfeld, officially launched the Air and Space Power Centre

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The Air and Space Power Centre Takes Flight

The Air Power Development Centre has supported the development of Air Power concepts and strategies since 2004.

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Failure: Too Quick to Judge

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Pointless or Populism?

This article began as a response to Daniel Cook’s recent article on ‘Turning the Tap Off – Stopping the Flow of Pointless Jobs in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)’ (Cook, 2023); as such, it will address some of the points raised in that article within the context a broader trend towards what I term ‘military populism’.

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