#AFSTRAT 2020: Framework or Fallacy? - David Hood
Our final instalment within the #AFSTRAT series is offered by Wing Commander David Hood who pits the new strategic vision against strategist
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- Nov 22, 2020
- 6 min
#AFSTRAT 2020: We’re on the road to… somewhere – Marija Jovanovich
History is a story written by the victors – but how do we formulate the story when history hasn’t happened yet?
- Nov 15, 2020
- 6 min
How RAAF Air Power Lost Its #AFSTRAT and Got It Back - Dr Heather Venable
The Royal Australian Air Force is breaking through nearly a century of Western militaries’ operational focused 'air force strategy.'
- Sep 27, 2020
- 2 min
Call for Submissions: #AFSTRAT – What is the Air Force Strategy?
During a period of unprecedented change, the Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Mel Hupfeld, AO, DSC recently released The Air Force Strategy
- Aug 30, 2020
- 7 min
Rethinking basing in the Indo-Pacific – Natasia Pulford
The Indo-Pacific region is undergoing profound change resulting in increasing instability and uncertainty. The recent release of the 2020
- Feb 1, 2019
- 3 min
Call for Submissions: #Selfsustain and High-Intensity Operations – Editorial
On 11 April 2019, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar examining high-intensity operations and sustaining self-reliance.
- Oct 15, 2018
- 5 min
China’s Evolving Long-Range Strike Capability and its Implications – James Bosbotinis
China is developing and deploying a broad-based long-range precision strike capability that will in the near-term enable Beijing to project
- Sep 9, 2018
- 5 min
Preparing to Fight for the Skies Part 2 – Robert Vine
Robert Vine continues his exploration of the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) future challenges and options for controlling the air by
- Aug 19, 2018
- 7 min
#jointstrike Thinking to Deter – Andrew Hoffmann
19 August 2018 On 23 August 2018, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar on #jointstrike to discuss the imperative for...
- Aug 15, 2018
- 5 min
#jointstrike Deterring Russia – Hugh White
15 August 2018 On 23 August 2018, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar on #jointstrike to discuss the imperative for...
- Aug 12, 2018
- 6 min
#jointstrike Part 2: Deterrence, Strike and Australian air power – Jenna Higgins
12 Aug 18 This post is the second of a two-part series on deterrence. The first sought to define deterrence holistically as an option for...
- Aug 10, 2018
- 6 min
#jointstrike Establishing and Re-establishing Modern Deterrence – Chris Buckley
10 August 2018 On 23 August 2018, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar on #jointstrike to discuss the imperative for...
- Aug 8, 2018
- 4 min
#jointstrike Closing the ADF’s Deterrence Gap – Malcolm Davis
08 August 2018 On 23 August 2018, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar on #jointstrike to discuss the imperative for...
- Aug 5, 2018
- 7 min
#jointstrike Part 1: Defining Deterrence – Jenna Higgins
On 23 August 2018, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation is holding a seminar on #jointstrike to discuss the imperative for an independent...
- Jul 29, 2018
- 6 min
Australian Defence Strategy and the Rules-Based Global Order: Missing Links and Absent Debate
29 July 2018 Recently criticised as ‘overused and increasingly meaningless,’[1] the problem with the rules-based global order as a...
- Jun 3, 2018
- 5 min
Strategy and Air Power Part 4: From Lust to Dust – Peter Layton
In the last of his four part series on air power and strategy, Peter Layton argues strategies must be dynamic or they are doomed. Parts on
- May 27, 2018
- 4 min
Strategy and Air Power Part 3: Ways to Success – Peter Layton
In the third post of a four-part series on air power and strategy, Peter Layton reminds us that strategy is just an idea. Part One in the se
- May 20, 2018
- 4 min
Strategy and Air Power Part 2: The Forgotten Other Side – Peter Layton
In the second post of a four-part series on air power and strategy, Peter Layton discusses a frequently overlooked element of air power: the
- May 13, 2018
- 5 min
Strategy and Air Power Part 1: Defining Objectives – Peter Layton
In the first post of a four-part series on air power and strategy, Peter Layton discusses the importance of defining objectives to strategy
- Mar 30, 2018
- 4 min
#highintensitywar and Alliances – Alan Stephens
Editorial Note: Between February and April 2018, The Central Blue and From Balloons to Drones, will be publishing a series of articles that
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