As the prevailing geo-strategic circumstances continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate, and the 4th Industrial Revolution accelerates the global proliferation of advanced technology, how can air forces further develop a competitive advantage through more effective training?

“If we lose the war in the air, we lose the war; and we lose it quickly.”
– Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

At what cost efficiency? One of the more difficult projects for Defence to conceive, plan, and execute, is an enterprise training system – and no more so than a defence…

Critical questions around people power at the opening of the RAAF’s 100 years What makes the Royal Australian Air Force a great air force? And as Australia’s strategic circumstances evolve…

AIR 6500 – Closing the gap between artificial intelligence and human performance Air forces, and defence forces more broadly, must find new ways of responding to an increasingly complex, lethal,…

The time is right to review the integration of defence industry with ADF capability

As Western militaries finalise the long and slow withdrawal from counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East, an even more complex problem arises: the problem of re-calibrating operational risk for activities below the threshold of conventional warfare in ‘grey zone’ competition.

This in-depth feature outlines the need for a unifying mission to replace the counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency narrative of the past two decades

History matters. While doctrine, tactics and plans tell us how to fight in the future, history teaches us what went wrong in the past.

By John Conway This article appeared in the NOV-DEC 2019 issue of ADBR For Colonel Muammar Gadaffi and the Libyan military, a ten-minute window in the early hours of April 15 1986 would have been complete chaos. With…

This article appeared in the JAN-FEB 2019 issue of ADBR. The arrival of the F-35A Lightning and transition to normal flying operations in Australia is underway.    While the aircraft has received most of the publicity…

The concept of a ‘wingman’ is as old as military aviation itself. Providing mutual support within a formation, the purpose of a wingman was established to protect the flight lead and provide…

By John Conway The 2016 Defence White Paper categorically states “our most basic Strategic Defence Interest is a secure, resilient Australia. The first Strategic Defence Objective is to deter, deny…

Why the F-35 is a force multiplier and accelerant in the next generation battlespace By John Conway This feature focuses on human factors and recent experience of air combat to…

In the second instalment of this two-part feature, ADBR will look back on operational experience from the Cold War era in the air-land environment and identify some of the enduring…

This feature appeared in the May-June issue of ADBR. Besides Jericho, there is another seven-letter, three-syllable word, beginning with ‘J’ currently doing the rounds in Defence circles – JEMSORA. Under…