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National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two
By David Beaumont. Other than times of clear national emergency, the Australian population does not perceive national security as a ‘bread and butter’ issue … For its part, Defence generally persists in categorising its peacetime and contingency engagements with the… Continue reading
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A new narrative for the mobilisation of a nation – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part One
Over the next month we’ll be publishing a number of popular posts on as broad a range of topics as possible. The next two posts outline the imperative to rethink how the ‘national support base’ is incorporated into defence. By David… Continue reading
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What we need to be. Building the Defence logistician – Part Two
By David Beaumont. Over the next month we’ll be publishing a number of popular posts on as broad a range of topics as possible. This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New… Continue reading
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How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician – Part One
By David Beaumont. Over the next month we’ll be publishing a number of popular posts on as broad a range of topics as possible. This transcript is the first half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New… Continue reading
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What an operation twenty years ago can tell us about preparedness now – lessons from INTERFET in 1999
By David Beaumont. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) went to East Timor in 1999 armed with luck and sustained by the outstanding initiative and resolve of its personnel. The logistics system, in contrast, was cobbled together from the remnants of… Continue reading
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The ‘So What’ of my experiences in East Timor – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part 4
By Brigadier Michael Kehoe (Retd). “In the two decades since the Australian deployment to East Timor as part of the International Force East Timor (INTERFET), much has been written about the operation predominantly from the national and military strategic perspectives.… Continue reading
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Swinging into action – reflections on East Timor by a logistics Unit Commander Part Three
By Brigadier Michael Kehoe (Retd). “In the two decades since the Australian deployment to East Timor as part of the International Force East Timor (INTERFET), much has been written about the operation predominantly from the national and military strategic perspectives.… Continue reading
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Planning to sustain the force – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part Two
By Brigadier Michael Kehoe (Retd). “In the two decades since the Australian deployment to East Timor as part of the International Force East Timor (INTERFET), much has been written about the operation predominantly from the national and military strategic perspectives.… Continue reading
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Reflections on East Timor by a logistics unit commander – twenty years on
By Brigadier Michael Kehoe (Retd). In the two decades since the Australian deployment to East Timor as part of the International Force East Timor (INTERFET), much has been written about the operation predominantly from the national and military strategic perspectives.… Continue reading
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Planting the right trees – logistics and its role in the ‘Phase Zero’ campaign
by Air Commodore Hayden Marshall (Ret’d). In a previous life, I had the opportunity to become very familiar with operational planning and experience first hand the impact of logistics (positive and negative) on various phases of a planned or active… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 