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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part III: National Support as the link between defence and national civil preparedness
How can a national support approach strengthen Australia’s national defence by integrating defence preparedness with national civil preparedness? By David Beaumont, PhD. This article is the third in a series on the strategic rationale for national support in Australian defence… Continue reading
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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part II: Preparing the Nation for Competition, Crisis and Conflict
How is Australia’s changing strategic environment reshaping the requirements for national civil preparedness, national support, and preparing the current and future force? By David Beaumont, PhD. Australia’s strategic environment is no longer simply deteriorating. Australian strategic policy has been clear… Continue reading
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The Strategic Rationale for National Support, Part I: The essential role of national resources and logistics in National Defence
Why should Australia organise national resources for defence before a crisis occurs, and what must be true for that approach to national civil preparedness and support to succeed? Australia’s strategic circumstances have changed in ways that require the nation, and… Continue reading
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From industry access to strategic advantage: why competition for industry and logistics will shape success in and out of war.
By David Beaumont For years Western strategic policy has seemed built for short, limited, wars, but strategic trends and concern for national industrial preparedness are taking planning in new directions. The notion that a concept for industrial mobilisation is now… Continue reading
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Assured industrial access in a new strategic epoch – contestation and the convergence of production and logistics.
By David Beaumont. In The fight to supply, I argued that one of the most important shifts in the changing character of war could be found in the growing contestation of logistics space. This was not only a statement about… Continue reading
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The fight to supply – what Ukraine and the Middle-east tell us about logistics space and the changing character of war
By David Beaumont The stabilising forces that once made global logistics flows all but a secondary concern for strategists, government policymakers, and defence planners are now under severe strain. With every reminder given to Western militaries that global supply chains… Continue reading
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The Paper War – the Substack Companion is online
By David Beaumont. A companion Substack for ‘The Paper War’ can now be found here. So why launch a Substack while maintaining this website? As you may remember from a post a while ago, I’ve been pondering different options for… Continue reading
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Sovereign survivability and shared resilience: placing logistics at the centre of new strategy
By Robbin Laird This article was originally posted at defense.info as ‘From Boutique Concern to Existential Question: Logistics, sustainment and combat power’. It is published here with permission. During a visit to Canberra in April 2026, I had the opportunity… Continue reading
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Preparedness planning at a strategic juncture: four considerations for preparing the national support base for conflict
By David Beaumont, PhD The nature of the military threats that Australia now faces are not ones that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) can, nor should, face alone. Instead, as history shows of all wars, military threats to the nation… Continue reading
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Beyond preparedness: logistics and resilience amid new strategic realities
By David Beaumont Presentation given to the NATO Logistics Committee, 12 Nov 25 Firstly, I would like to extend my gratitude for the great privilege to speak to the members of NATO’s Logistics Committee. I also wish to acknowledge the… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 