Exercise TALISMAN SABRE saw the certification of the Amphibious Readiness Group (ARG) and the LHD capability at Full Operational Capability (FOC). This magnificent achievement is the culmination of a decade of work, years in which we have developed a truly world-class joint amphibious capability and an understanding of how we will use it when the moment arrives.
Junior Military leaders often miss the relationship between policy and strategy, particular as it subsequently applies to an operation. In the international community, states interact to advance self-interests however; this can cause either deliberate or inadvertent conflict.
"In Tac Talks (July 2017), there were a number of discussions on the role of the rat-catchers” and the organisational need to counter the long lee. The long lee refers to a prolonged period of peacetime operations provided by a milestone maritime victory. In the simplest terms, a rat-catcher is an out of the box thinker who is required in wartime to seize the initiative and put their opposite number on the back foot."
Information operations have been conducted by militaries since the earliest days of warfare. Sun Tzu wrote of the importance of information supremacy to the military commander and of the importance of controlling information within the battle space.
We have a unique maritime role. We are the only Tall Ship in Australia to conduct blue-water ocean sailing. We have over 100 lines aboard that operate our 10 sails.
Chief of Navy’s cultural intent for the Royal Australian Navy is a Fighting Navy, a Thinking Navy, and an Australian Navy. For the past 15 years, our ship’s command teams have sought to refine, clarify and contemporise internal command and control processes and procedures such that by the mid-2000s we had developed a matrix of command priorities constructed to reflect equipment and capability the CO of a ship might need to achieve their aim or mission.
Australia is a unique organism with its circulatory system on the outside of its body. The Australian government’s requirement to protect its lifelines has transformed with the emergence of the Indo-Pacific economic rise.
Although Robert Haddick’s book ‘Fire on the Water’ is now a few years old, its subject matter continues to dominate the strategic outlook of the Indo-Pacific region.
This paper defines Australia's area of primary strategic interest, noting that this security in this region is very much concerned with maritime issues and capabilities; the waterways through the region are strategically important for both merchan