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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.
Air/Space
Developing

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.

By
Peter Layton
Power Plus Attitude
Publication
Stand Alone Publication / Monograph
Expert

Power Plus Attitude: Ideas, Strategy and Doctrine in the Royal Australian Air Force 1921-1991

Like any form of combat power, air power does not develop in isolation; nor is it static. Even
if there were no formal process linking its theoretical development and practical application
to other elements of national security, plainly it will remain responsive to a range of external
influences from the wider civil and military communities which combine to shape the
national security outlook.

By
Alan Stephens
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