What are the national challenges and opportunities for Australia with respect to future energy; especially for powered flight?
Defence Strategic Review and Adapt: Implementing DSR as a Wargame
David Hood
Australian Defence Force
For several decades, the relationship between Australia and India seemed limited to Commonwealth, cricket and curry.
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Like any modern military, the Australian Defence Force is reliant upon space capabilities to conduct global, connected and precise military operati
Imagining potential futures where we create advantage through collaboration.
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.
The Indo-Pacific is facing increased and intersecting geopolitical, climate-related and health security risks.
In the Australian strategic consciousness the Pacific Islands loom very large.
