Antarctica is changing.
If we are to meet our obligations as professional airmen, we must continue to question, examine and restate our fundamental beliefs.
For almost a decade now, IBM Research has been supporting risk management using an AI based and data driven, support tool: the Scenario Planning Ad
It is a relatively common trend that solving an organisational strategic issue reveals another.
With the implementation of digital technology, came the resistance to change and
implementing change agents brought about the awareness of having a safe-to-fail culture.
Technology usually follows a certain progression – first the device gets more features before it reduces in size. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fill this description perfectly, and we have yet to come up with an adequate defence for them.
Multiple challenges are coming fast and simultaneously creating a future operational environment of unprecedented complexity. For example:
The Temptation To Go Beyond Conventional Long-Range Strike
Daniel Cook
Australian Defence Force
In terms of National Power in the past, the majority of modern “Grey-Zone” activities centred on clear Diplomatic, Information, non-lethal Military and Economic actions. What is concerning are the blurred lines developing between these instruments, where often State actions do not meet perceived intent creating confusion in the rules-based global order.
Defence can only achieve an intellectual edge if its members are consistently engaged and curious.
