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Changing Character of War Conference
The Land Warfare Studies Centre was pleased to collaborate with the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War and the Strategic Studies Institute, US War College, in presenting the Post-heroic Warfare Conference held at All Souls, Oxford, in March 2011. The Conference Report is now available here.
Latest edition of the Australian Army Journal released
The Winter 2011 edition of the Australian Army Journal is now available.
This edition covers many interesting topics, including reflections on the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force in Uruzgan, as well as other timely perspectives on counterinsurgency. There are several articles tackling the broad topic of doctrine training, as well as the difficult area of Army culture. Finally, our review essays and reviews highlight the quality of publishing and commentary currently available in Australia and internationally.
The Winter 2011 edition of the Australian Army Journal is available as a complete download, or as individual articles. It can be accessed here.
Professor Alan Dupont's recent seminar
The Directorate of Army Research and Analysis, in conjunction with the University of Sydney, was pleased to present Professor Alan Dupont for the latest Changing Character of War seminar entitled 'The Australian Army in the Age of the Dragon' on 1 July 2011.
In this presentation, Professor Dupont analysed the security implications of China's rise as peer competitor of the United States in the Asia Pacific region. The prospect of intensifying competition between Australia's most significant security partner and our most substantial trading partner is likely to shape the formulation of strategic policy for the next decade and beyond. Leading strategic commentators and analysts are sharply divided as to the implications of this rivalry for Australian foreign and defence policy. Professor Alan Dupont assessed the likelihood of conflict in the Western Pacific and draw out the strategic and operational implications specifically for the Australian Army.
Professor Alan Dupont has a unique perspective on Australia's strategic future and the Australian Army's role in ensuring national security. Professor Dupont is a Royal Military College graduate, the foundation Michael Hintze Chair of International Security and the Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney as well as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He has served in the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs and Trade and has been a member of several government advisory boards. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of Australian defence, national security, force modernisation and Asian security developments.
A sound recording of this seminar will be available shortly from here.