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Chapter 17 - Organising for operations

Case studies from the Australian Defence Force’s Afghanistan commitments, 2005–2006

from Part 6 - Deployment challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2025

John Blaxland
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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This chapter uses three declassified case studies to examine the varying and complex mobilisation processes that led to each of Australia’s major Afghanistan commitments throughout 2005–6. It examines how the Department of Defence implemented its decisions – what it did to organise for operations – up until the point that military forces deployed overseas. Questions of manpower, supply and logistics, force preparation, combined planning with coalition partners, force insertion and policy development were different for each of these deployments. What worked, and what did not? What was done, and what was left undone? And what impact did any of this have on subsequent operations?

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Mobilising the Australian Army
Contingencies and Compromises Over More than a Century
, pp. 368 - 386
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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