The "Lightspeed" Space Power eManual
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The Weaponisation of Toys and Implications for the Air Force
The 'poor man's air force' is a term for employing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hobbyist drones or uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to strategic level military effect, and that effect cannot be understated (Waters, 2018; Nadeau, 2022; Shift, 2023). The ability for terror organisations to coordinate multiple layers of effects, including using COTS drones, to destroy Command and Control (C2) nodes in Israel causes alarm. Couple this with the use of COTS drones for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, strike and battle-damage assessment missions, and the threat posed by what are essentially toys is alarmingly real.
Turning the Tap Off - Stopping the Flow of Pointless Jobs in the RAAF
Turning the Tap Off - Stopping the Flow of Pointless Jobs in the RAAF
Daniel Cook
Australian Defence Force
The Future is Not What It Used To Be: Conflict in the Information Age
I can call a computer an Information Technology. But, if I lack the skills to use it, it is just a big rock. You bring me 10 hackers and within 90 days I'll bring this country to its knees.
Rapid Force Projection - Conference Proceedings
Multiple challenges are coming fast and simultaneously creating a future operational environment of unprecedented complexity. For example:
Air and Space Power Conference 2024 Transcript: National Mobilisation: Perspectives on the Ukraine Conflict by General James B. Hecker
Air and Space Power Conference 2024 Transcript: National Mobilisation: Perspectives on the Ukraine Conflict by General James B.
SAASS Paper No 6: Windows of Opportunity: East Timor and Australian Strategic Decision Making
This publication was initially published as part of the Drew Papers series by Air University Press, Alabam US.
New Year, Old Roots
For many Australian Defence Force members, their youth was spent in either Air Force, Army or Navy Cadets; and for some of our Air and Space Power
RAAF Air Power Conference 1991: Smaller but Larger: Conventional Air Power into the 21st Century
If we are to meet our obligations as professional airmen, we must continue to question, examine and restate our fundamental beliefs.
The Four-Day Near-Peer Air War
The Four-Day Near-Peer Air WarPeter LaytonGriffith University and Australian Defence ForceIn May 2025, India and Pakistan fought a near-peer air wa
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