Event Proceedings

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Conference reports: Dr Robbin Laird, Williams Foundation Fellow, and contributor for Second Line of Defense, produces a conference report highlighting the innovation, challenges and policy implications presented. He also interviews a number of senior Defence personnel to produce a series of smaller topical articles.

Oct 30, 2019

Conference: The Requirements of Fifth Generation Manoeuvre - Final Report

...major presentations and discussions at the Williams Foundation seminar on the requirements for fifth generation manoeuvre

Oct 23, 2019

Conference: The Requirements of Fifth Generation Manoeuvre - Program and Presentations

Examine the differences and potential gaps in how the Australian Defence Force must equip and organise for multi-domain operations

Aug 6, 2019

Lunch: Coalition Warfighting and Pacific AOR Interoperability - LTG Michael Oates (Retd)

Errol McCormack Members Lunch - Coalition Warfighting and Pacific AOR Interoperability

Apr 10, 2019

Conference: Hi-Intensity Operations and Sustaining Self Reliance - Program and Presentations

The seminar will address the evolving Australian approach to building new capabilities and systems with an expanded role for Australian indu

Apr 10, 2019

Conference: Hi-Intensity Operations and Sustaining Self Reliance - Final Report

The latest Williams Seminar held in Canberra on April 11, 2019 focused on the strategic shift for Australia within the context of the evolvi

Sep 6, 2018

Conference: The Imperative for an Independent Deterrent: A Joint Strike Seminar - Final Report

Since 2014, the Williams Foundation has held a series of seminars, which have looked at the nature of military transformation enabled by new

Aug 22, 2018

Conference: The Imperative for an Independent Deterrent: A Joint Strike Seminar

This seminar seeks to build a common understanding of the need for an independent joint strike capability to provide Australia with a powerf

Apr 30, 2018

Conference: The Requirements of High Intensity Warfare - Final Report

the Foundation is focusing on the new strategic context within which this force will operate and the kinds of further changes necessary for

Mar 21, 2018

Conference: The Requirements of High Intensity Warfare

As the world rapidly moves to a more dangerous, multi-polar place; after two decades of Counter Insurgency, Counter Terrorism conflict - Wha

Sep 14, 2017

Conference: A New Approach, and Attitude, to Electronic Warfare In Australia - Final Report

In this report, the major presentations at the Williams Foundation seminar on the evolution of electronic warfare, notably from the standpoi