Winner of the WOFF-AF Creative Writing Award, this Blog investigates how Air Force can improve its enlisted aviators opportunities without requiring them to commission.
Decreasing Reliance on Fossil Fuels to Increase Defence Capability
Benjamin Cole
Australian Defence Force
For several decades, the relationship between Australia and India seemed limited to Commonwealth, cricket and curry.
Applying Wylie's Cumulative and Sequential Patterns to Air OperationsPeter Layton
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.
The onset of the war in Ukraine saw one of the most dramatic shifts in combined arms warfare since the introduction of the machine gun. This shift is attributed to the wide scale introduction of drones to the modern battlefield (Kagan et al, 2024). Principally the conflict is demonstrating drones pioneering new capabilities in reconnaissance, close air support and strategic strike with virtually zero risk to the operator.
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Limited by resources and size the F-35 was the best, and largely only, option available to the ADF that guaranteed long term defense interests.
Beyond the Buzzwords: Charting the Course to Fully Autonomous Combat AircraftKeirin JoyceAustralian Defence ForceWarfare is undergoing a fundamenta
