My Curious Month – Grappling with Military Imagination
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘What the Americans lacked, or lost somewhere along the way, was imagination… It was not a failure of intelligence, but of imagination.’ […]
Nick Alexander
Service and Serendipity – Ten Reflections Prior to Sub Unit Command
Reading Time: 5 minutes I was recently selected for a sub-unit command appointment and as with all significant milestones, this selection made me pause and look […]
My Curious Month: Lazy PME for Parents
Reading Time: 5 minutes What Can we Learn from Kids Shows? We’ve previously published an article by Tom Bittner on Sci-Fi TV as a lazy, but meaningful […]
Book Review – The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan
Reading Time: 2 minutes The national war hero who is a terrible adulterer and the shameless torturer who devotes his life to being the caring and […]
My Curious Month – Lessons from Game of Thrones and the value of FICINT
Reading Time: 3 minutes Since our last instalment of My Curious Month, the team at GC have been enamoured with the final season of Game of Thrones. […]
My Curious Month
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is the first of a new monthly serial titled ‘My Curious Month’, where we will explore common themes that pop up across the PME network, summarise them and signpost resources if you’d like to explore the topic further.
Book Review – Goodbye to all that
Reading Time: 2 minutes Goodbye to all that should be on every junior leaders reading list because of its powerful message around the brutality and impact of war
The Importance of a ‘Failure to Grow’ Culture
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was shocked recently to read a piece by Major General Mick Ryan covering the pretty spectacular failure of his first year in […]
150 Years On – What’s Left to Learn from the ‘Letterman Plan’?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The story of MAJ Jonathan Letterman and the ‘Letterman Plan’ should exist forever in Combat Health lore as one of the professions […]
Idea Pitch – Deployable Health and the Internet-of-Things: Ground Up Recommendations for the ADF’s Deployable e-Health Management Systems
Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction ‘…compassion and technology aren’t necessarily incompatible, they can be mutually beneficial… machine oddly enough may be medicine’s best friend’ Dr. Atul […]