What Is War? Defining War, Conflict and Competition Examples of war’s colloquial use include the trade war between the United States and China, and the concept of grey-zone war (sometimes known as grey-zone warfare) This style of ‘political war’ is defined as “…political influence, economic coercion, use of cyber, use of information operations, and …use of military posture” to shape an opponent, their allies and partners [1]
Understanding Wars Theory: What Military Theory Is, Where it Fits and . . . The definition also indicates that the focus of military theory is the development of first principles knowledge about war and warfare It is this knowledge that allows planners, commanders and senior decision makers to adapt their know-how of war fighting to changing situations, environments and political objectives
How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare? - Australian Army However, the war in Ukraine has seen the first large-scale deployment of smaller drones by both Ukrainian and Russian forces for real-time intelligence gathering and direct combat engagements, illustrating the tactical versatility of these systems in contemporary conflicts [4] This unprecedented use of drones on a large scale in Ukraine offers valuable lessons for Australia
Moulding War’s Thinking: Using Wargaming to Broaden Military Minds But that war followed a pattern as if the ironic gods of history had taken the kaleidoscope of pre-war thinking, planning, concept development, and innovation, given the whole a huge shaking, and then allowed the pieces to play out over the … conflict in a fashion quite different from what the leaders and planning staffs of the pre-war navy
Politics, Strategy and Tactics: Rethinking the Levels of War The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose - Carl von Clausewitz 1 Abstract The ‘levels of war’ is a doctrinal construct which describes the way political objectives are translated into military strategies which in turn guide tactical actions
Drones in Modern Warfare: Lessons Learnt from the War in Ukraine and the legal and ethical implications of ‘dronified’ foreign policy 4 The war in Ukraine is the first large-scale, high-intensity war where both sides have extensively deployed military and commercial drones in warfare As such, the war is revealing lessons previously missed by the existing literature on UAV technology
The Forgotten First: The 1st Australian Division in the Great War and . . . The last Australian World War I soldier, Peter Casserly, passed away three years in June 2005, although at the time of his death two other World War I soldiers were still alive, neither had served overseas during the war Australia’s last World War I veteran, Evan Allan, a member of the Royal Australian Navy, died in October 2005 aged 106
How Small Nations Influence Great Powers in War The Poles reluctantly fought on until the end of the war but were not even invited to the post-war victory parade [30] By pursuing a primarily military strategy, the Poles had found themselves in a true catch 22: their military had to be committed to operations to gain leverage over British decision-makers, but once committed it lost the freedom of action to provide that leverage
Future War – Future Warfare | Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) In ‘War and Anti-War’ 1 the Tofflers argued for the power of the technologies that comprised the RMA but warned that states would not monopolise that power Arquilla in numerous writings went further and posited that ‘netwar was coming’ and that the field of battle would increasingly shift away from geographic space and into cyberspace
Defending the Indefensible: The Defence of Superior Orders for War . . . During the Second World War, both the Americans and British amended their military and war crimes codes to minimise the defence of obedience to superior orders This action was regarded by cynics as an attempt to prosecute the Germans and Japanese more effectively at Nuremberg and Tokyo with scant regard for those crimes committed by Allied forces under what was considered to be ‘victors