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The Principles of War - Lessons from Military History on Strategy, Tactics, Doctrine and Leadership. — 212 episodes
152 - National Guard vs Imperial Japanese Army on Guardalcanal - Lessons Learnt for employing green troops at 5th Matanikau
151 - How Sea Control doomed the 17th Army to Starvation on Guadalcanal: The failure of the Tokyo Express
150 - What new tactics did Carlson's Raiders use to hunt Shoji's Regiment during the Long Patrol on Guadalcanal?
How do you defend an island nation when 40% of your trade flows through contested waters?
Strategic Context for Australia's WW2 mobilisation
How do you defend an island nation when 40% of your trade flows through contested waters?
Australia's Road to War - 1936 to 1941 - Dr Peter Layton
149 - Why did the Marines stop 1,000 yards short of victory at 4th Matanikau - Guadalcanal
148 - The Battle of Henderson Field - Guadalcanal 1942
147 - The Japanese tank attack in the Battle of Henderson Field - Guadalcanal
146 - Halsey's question for Vandegrift about Henderson Field's defence that influenced Pacific Strategy.
145 - 973 rounds in 83 minutes. The Battleship Bombardment of Henderson Field
144 - Situational Awareness and the fight for Guadalcanal's Key Terrain - 3rd Battle of the Matanikau
143 - Inside the Japanese OODA loop on Guadalcanal - Vandegrift and 3rd Matanikau
Puller, Munro, and Monssen - the daring resuce of 1/7 Marines - 2nd Battle of the Matanikau Part II
141 - Chesty Puller, 1/7 Marines and 2nd Matanikau, Guadalcanal
140 - Battle of Edson's Ridge: How the Marines saved the Cactus Air Force
139 - Guadalcanal - Edson and the defence of Bloody Ridge
138 - Guadalcanal - Battle of the Tenaru: How the Marines stopped Ichiki's night assault on the Alligator Creek
137 - The Marines' Assault on Guadalcanal
136 - Marines vs Japanese: Brutal Battles for Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo
135 - How the Marines Prepared for Guadalcanal | Operation Watchtower Explained
134 - Preparing Today's Armies for Tomorrow's Wars: Battlefield Innovation and Disruption
133 - Kill webs and super swarms - building survivable CPs for decision superiority
132 - Ten Battlefield Disruptors for Tomorrow's Wars
131 - Amphibious Ambitions and Island Defeats - How Kinman and Hainan shaped China's Navy
130 - From River Crossings to Amphibious Operations - How the PLA Built a Navy from scratch and learned littoral manoeuvre
129 - Slim in Burma - Innovation, Air Power and Special Forces
128 - Rebuilding an Army: Morale, Leadership, Training and Mission Command in the 14th Army with Slim
127 - The General who wouldn't quit: Slim and the longest retreat
126 - Care of the wounded on the Kokoda Track
The Military Decision Making and Planning Process
125 - Medical considerations on the Kokoda Track
124 - Leadership lessons from the Jungles of Vietnam with Gary McKay
123 - Jungle Combat in Vietnam with Gary McKay
122 - Japanese Lessons Learnt for Jungle Warfare
121 - The Jungle Warfare Training Centre, Canungra
120 - Preparing for Combat in the Jungle
119 - Learning to learn: Jungle Warfare
118 - Jungle Warfare Doctrine Development in the Australian Army
117 - Lessons learnt from Drone combat in Ukraine
116 - Air Power during the Kokoda and Milne Bay Campaigns.
115 - No. 75 Squadron Leadership at Port Moresby
114 - P40Es vs Zeroes - 75 Squadron and their 44 days at Port Moresby
113 - 75 Squadron and the Kokoda Campaign
112 - Combined Arms on the Kokoda Track
111 - Friendly Fire on the Kokoda Track
110 - The JIPOE / IPB for the Kokoda Track
109 - Operational mistakes in the Kokoda Campaign
108 - The Competition for Superior Doctrine
107 - British Combined Arms doctrine in the inter war period
106 - Combined Arms Doctrine Development in the First World War
105 - Ralph Honner, the 39th Battalion and Kokoda
104 - The 39th Battalion on the Kokoda Track
103 - Principles of Training for War
102 - Training a Battalion for War
100 - The fall of Isurava
101 - Mobilisation Mistakes with the Mice of Moresby
99 - The Death of a CO
98 - Creating the doctrinal and cultural changes for effective Mission Command with Jim Storr
97 - Time and the importance of timeliness in orders with Jim Storr
96 - The 53rd Battalion at Isurava during the Kokoda Campaign
95 - A militia Battalion on the Kokoda Trail
94 - The 53rd Battalion on the Kokoda Trail
93 - Chinese Deception Planning on the Yalu River, 1950
92 - Deception and self deception on the Yalu River - 1950
91 - Principles for Employment of Artillery at 2nd Alamein
90 - Counter Battery Fires at 2nd El Alamein
89 - Artillery at 2nd El Alamein
88 - The Role of Artillery at 2nd Alamein
87 - Julian Corbett and British Maritime and Grand Strategy with Professor Andrew Lambert
86 - Lessons learnt from the 2nd Battle of El Alamein
85 - Monty fights to buy time for the 8th Army at Alam Halfa
84 - Montgomery, Fighting Power and turning morale around in the 8th Army
83 - Op Bertram - Operational Deception at 2nd El Alamein
82 - Military Deception at the Strategic, Operational and Tactical level - examples from the 2nd Battle of El Alamein
81 - The 2nd Battle of El Alamein
80 - The Fireplan for the Battle of Vimy Ridge
79 - The development of Canadian Artillery technology leading up to Vimy Ridge
78 - The conduct of the Battle of Vimy Ridge Part II
77 - The Battle of Vimy Ridge Part I
76 - Lessons for the Employment of Artillery from the Battle of Bullecourt
75 - Operational Level Lessons Learned from 1st Bullecourt
74 - Failing to Plan or Planning to Fail? First Battle of Bullecourt
73 - 1st Battle of Bullecourt - The Australian Infantry's most brilliant achievement
72 - Panzergruppe Kleist - German Centre of Gravity - Battle of France Part VIII
71 - German Center of Gravity - Battle of France Part VII
70 - The French Centre of Gravity - Battle of France 1940 Part VI
69 - British CoG under Churchill - Battle of France 1940 Part V
68 - British Centre of Gravity Analysis - Battle of France 1940 Part IV
67 - Overview of the Battle of France 1940 II
66 - Overview of the Battle of France I
65 - Battle of France 1940
64 - In Action - The Boer War and the First Shot of the First World War
63 - The Birth of Australian Artillery
62 - Sir Max Hastings and Lessons Learnt from Vietnam
61 - Vietnam - An Epic Tragedy and Moral Centers of Gravity
60 - Nelson and the Amphibious Raid on Tenerife
Nelson, Tenerife and Mission Command
58 - Reflections and lessons learnt from the Battle of Long Tan
57 - The Battle of Long Tan - C2 and Logistics
Firepower 54: Western Front - Breaching the Hindenburg Line Plenary Session
Firepower 53: The Apogee of the Gunner's Art
Firepower 52: Bringing Artillery in the Great War together
Firepower 51: Coxen as Commander Royal Artillery
Firepower 50: Montbrehain: Artillery Tactics, Techniques and Procedures
56 - The Battle of Long Tan from the Company Commander's Perspective
55 - The lead up to the Battle of Long Tan with LT COL Harry Smith
54 - Preparing for the Battle of Long Tan with LT COL Harry Smith
53 - Royal Navy Mission Command at the Battle of Cape St Vincent
52 - Lord Nelson and the Battle of Cape St Vincent
51 - Lord Horatio Nelson and Mission Command
Firepower 48: Artillery Spotting, Air Drops and Ground Attacks
Firepower 49: Hamel and Amiens Questions and Answer
Firepower 47: The Amiens Offensive
Firepower 46: The Fireplan from Hell
Firepower 45: Technological Testing at the Battle of Hamel
50 - The Birth of Australian Special Forces
Firepower 44: Western Front - The Spring Offensive and Villers Brettoneux Plenary Session
Firepower 43: The man who killed the Red Baron
Firepower 42: French Artillery to 1918
Firepower 41: Villers-Bretonneux
Firepower 40: The German Spring Offensive
Firepower 39: Western Front Plenary Session
Firepower 38: The advent of the tank
Firepower 37: The Battle of Cambrai and the role of artillery
Firepower 36: The emergence of modern combined arms warfare
Firepower 35: Messines Ridge / Passchendaele Plenary Session
Firepower 34: Artillery and manoeuvre warfare in the Desert War
Firepower 33 - The origins of Artillery Intelligence Fusion
Firepower 32 - Menin Road - Cracking the nut
49 - Innovative tactics for the Battle of the Bismarck Sea
48 - Creating a culture of military innovation - GEN Kenney and the Fifth Air Force
Firepower 31: Western Front 1917 Plenary Session
Firepower 30: The Gunners of 101st Battery - Lance Bombardier Lindsay Barret DCM
Firepower 29: Industrialised warfare 1916 - 1918 - Firepower and tactics
Firepower 28: 1917 - A strategic overview
Firepower 27: Plenary Session for the Western Front - Verdun and the end of the beginning
Firepower 26: Archie - The Development of Anti Aircraft Artillery
Firepower 25: Feeding the guns - From Arsenal to Gun Position
47 - Military Innovation and Creativity with GEN Kenney and the Battle of the Bismarck Sea
46 - The Battle of the Bismarck Sea
45 - Leadership and Morale on Palliers Hill
44 - The considerations for the defense of Palliers Hill
Firepower 24: Shell Shock - The precursor to post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Firepower 23: The French Artillery at Verdun
43 - Considerations for the attack on Pallier's Hill
42 - The attack goes in on Pallier's Hill
41 - The Assault on Pallier's Hill
Firepower 22: Pozieres Plenary Session
Firepower 21: Jutland and the advent of Over the Horizon Warfare
Firepower 20: The First Air Observation Posts
Firepower 19: LT Thurnhill - Direct firect at Pozieres
40 - Long Tan Mission Analysis
Firepower 18: Evolution of Royal Artillery Tactics
Firepower 17: Plenary Session for the employment of Australian Artillery on the Western Front in 1916
Firepower 16: The 100 Series Batteries in WW1
Firepower 15: Major General Talbot Hobbs: Command in Manoeuvre and Firepower
39 - The unwomanly face of war and the moral centre of gravity
38 - The experience of women in the Soviet Military in WW2.
Firepower 14: New technology: Munitions, fuses and production for Artillery in WW1
Firepower 13: Artillery planning for the Somme Offensive
37 - How was D Coy prepared for battle?
36 - Why was Long Tan a Victory?
Firepower 12 - Artillery at Gallipoli Plenary Session
Firepower 11: Artillery Logistics over the Shore
Firepower 10: Counter Battery Fire at Gallipoli
Firepower 9: The Ottoman Artillery at ANZAC
Firepower 8: The ANZAC Commanders and their use of Artillery
35 - The Defence of Nui Dat
34 - How was artillery controlled at Long Tan?
33 - The practice of Mission Command
32 - Mission Command and Mission Success with Nordbat 2
31 - Long Tan 7: The final Coy Defensive position
30 - Terrain Analysis for a Social Media War
29 - Russia, T-800s, Social Media and the War that never was
28 - Long tan 6: The transition to the defence
27 - Long Tan 5: The Encounter Battle in the Long Tan Rubber Plantation
26 - Long Tan 4: The Terrain in Phuoc Tuy and the base at Nui Dat.
25 - Long Tan 3: To Vung Tau
Firepower 7: Tactics and use of Artillery in the ANZAC Campaign, 1915
24 - Long Tan 2 - The Scheyville Experience
23 - Long Tan 1: Readiness, Conscription and the Nashos
Firepower 6: Gallipoli Landing Questions and Answers
Firepower 5: Forgotten Gunners of Gallipoli - 7 Mountain Indian Artillery Brigade
Firepower 4: New Zealand Field Artillery at Gallipoli
Firepower 3: Naval Gunfire at Gallipoli
Firepower 2: Gallipoli Gunners - The Human Side
22 - Centre of Gravity Analysis with COL Dale Eikmeier
21 - Centers of Gravity and Ends, Ways and Means with COL Dale Eikmeier
20 Hannibal at the gates of Rome - The process for finding a Center of Gravity
Firepower 1: Command, Control and Communication challenges at ANZAC
19 - Hannibal and the definition of Center of Gravity
18 - The Center of Gravity at the Battle of Cannae
17 - Malaya Campaign After Action Review Part II
16 - Malaya Campaign After Action Review Part I
15 - LT COL Anderson VC, moral and physical courage at Bakri and Parit Sulong
14 - Lt McCure, Moral Courage and the Battle of Bakri
13 - Black Jack Galleghan and the ambush at Gemas
12 - What role did Morale play in Malaya
11 - Flexibility in the Malaya Campaign
10 - What role did Sustainment play in Malaya
9 - Economy of Effort and Cooperation in the Malaya Campaign
8 - Concentration of Force in the Malaya Campaign
7 - Security and Surprise in Malaya. How were the British surprised with 4 years warning of invasion?
6 - Dithering and Offensive Action in the Malaya Campaign
5 - Japanese and British selection and maintenance of aim for the Malaya Campaign
4 - Comparing Japanese and British Doctrine in Malaya
3 - Malaya Campaign Terrain and comparing Japanese and Allied Doctrine
2 - The Japanese and Allied Centres of Gravity for the Malaya Campaign
1 - The most Manouevrist Campaign the Australian Army has ever fought.
0 - The Principles of War and You