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The RAAF's Frozen Middle Part Two
Dylan Williamson
Australian Defence Force
Like any modern military, the Australian Defence Force is reliant upon space capabilities to conduct global, connected and precise military operati
Applying Wylie's Cumulative and Sequential Patterns to Air OperationsPeter Layton
Air and Space Power Conference 2026 Transcript 'Strategic Update in the Region'The Air and Space Power Conference 2026 took place at the National C
China's current and evolving grey zone activities in the South China Sea, the East China Sea and Ladakh region
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.
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 '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.
