Is The RAAF Seeking Combat Effectiveness
Daniel Cook
Australian Defence Force
Proposals for presentations of 3,000 words (max.) are invited from established scholars, early career academic researchers, industry leaders, polic
Living and Thriving Under Ambiguity
Luke Houghton and Jennifer Loy
Griffith University
Since 2010, the Wrigley Prize writing competition has called for written submissions that demonstrate an understanding of air power theory, and mor
Underpinning modernisation efforts in the Australian and US Air Forces is the shared recognition that success in the future battle space depends fo
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.
Air and Space Power Conference 2024 Transcript: Operating in Northern Australia by Mr Cameron Smith.Live Transcripts from the Air and Space Power C
Chief of Air Force and the other Australian Defence Force Service Chiefs launch the Air Power Manual 7th ed and Space Power eManual
Ensuring that logistics support is organised as a single, coherent system that removes duplication and assists in the provision of a consistent, comprehensive and complementary flow of logistics support through each of the levels of war to enable the effective application of air power.
