Book contents
- Mobilising the Australian Army
- Other titles in the Chief of Army History Conference series
- Mobilising the Australian Army
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Mobilising an army
- Part 2 Mobilising resources for war
- Part 3 Women and force expansion
- Part 4 Alliance and concurrency pressures
- Chapter 8 Concurrency pressures of accelerated warfare
- Chapter 9 Collective security
- Chapter 10 The Australian Army’s growing concurrency pressures, 2003–2010
- Chapter 11 Difficulties of coalition operations
- Part 5 Force preparation
- Part 6 Deployment challenges
- Part 7 Reflections
- Index
Chapter 8 - Concurrency pressures of accelerated warfare
Strategic issues for a contemporary Australian Army
from Part 4 - Alliance and concurrency pressures
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Book contents
- Mobilising the Australian Army
- Other titles in the Chief of Army History Conference series
- Mobilising the Australian Army
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Mobilising an army
- Part 2 Mobilising resources for war
- Part 3 Women and force expansion
- Part 4 Alliance and concurrency pressures
- Chapter 8 Concurrency pressures of accelerated warfare
- Chapter 9 Collective security
- Chapter 10 The Australian Army’s growing concurrency pressures, 2003–2010
- Chapter 11 Difficulties of coalition operations
- Part 5 Force preparation
- Part 6 Deployment challenges
- Part 7 Reflections
- Index
Summary
The current strategic environment can be characterised as a return to great power competition, centred on the Indo-Pacific region, within an environment of post-pandemic climate change. The ’region is in the midst of the most consequential strategic realignment since the Second World War’, and the confluence of these characteristics has resulted in a major step-change for Australia’s strategic policy and has significantly increased expectations of the Australian Defence Force. For the ADF, the force generation and force employment requirements to effectively shape, deter and respond within a ’competitive and contested’ region increase the demand signal on the force. For the Australian Army, accelerated warfare requires land forces ’to be ready to do more tasks, fight at all ranges, and enable the joint force in every domain’.
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- Mobilising the Australian ArmyContingencies and Compromises Over More than a Century, pp. 170 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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