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Australian Army officer Lieutenant Jackson Say from 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment, reads command notes on a map during a live fire M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) Serial at Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland, on 06 September 2025.
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Applying Wylie’s Cumulative and Sequential Patterns to Air Operations

Strategist Joseph Caldwell Wylie argued that strategies were implemented through two general types of operational patterns: (1) cumulative warfare, which involves “a collection of lesser actions” where tactical actions gradually built up to have strategic impact; and (2) sequential warfare, which is “a series of discrete steps” where each lead to the next; an example being the island hopping campaign across the Pacific during World War Two.

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Peter Layton
Historical former RAAF Meteor jet fighter aircraft.
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Book Review: Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat

In Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat (Higham & Harris, 2016), historians Robin Higham and Stephen Harris assemble a team of experts to investigate examples of failure and defeat in the application of air power. Overall, Why Air Forces Fail is an interesting and important book because it analyses the reasons why air forces have suffered defeat and failure. It draws some important lessons in this regard, and it provides an excellent resource for those studying air power.

By
David Hood
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