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New Approaches to Air-Land Integration

projection with the new RAAF airlift capabilities, and the future of providing for forward air control from the
air in the contested battlespace.
What is clear is that the Aussies are at the cutting edge of the rethink of how to reshape an integrated 21st
century force.
In this report, the main highlights generated by the seminar and discussion are augmented by a number of
interviews conducted during and after the presentations at either the Air Power Conference or the Williams
Seminar. As such, the report provides an overview on how the RAAF and the Australian Army are thinking
about the transformation of the joint force.
The emerging perspective from the seminars can be encapsulated in the following graphic, which has been
produced for this report to reflect the convergent lines of transformation for the Australian military service
upon a more convergent combat capability.

FIGURE 1 GRAPHIC CREDIT: SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE

The report has been written by Dr. Robbin F. Laird, Second Line of Defense, who attended the RAAF Airpower
Conference, the Williams seminars mentioned in the report, as well as having conducted the interviews of the
RAAF and Army officers.
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THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF

The Australian Army, Lt. General Angus Campbell, weighed in on the future of the Australian Army in the joint
environment in two presentations recently in Canberra. The first was during the RAAF’s 2016 Air Power

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