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Designing the Integrated Force: How to Define and Meet the Challenge?
This passage is one of the most powerful ever written about the role of a Navy and the connection with their
citizens:
“Most People think the Navy is something else.
“They know it exists, the may even have a rough idea of what it is for, but they don’t think it’s got much to do
with them.
“They’re wrong.
“The Navy is a national enterprise in which everyone is involved and which everyone is involved and which delivers
peace and security to everyone in the country.
“This enterprise is a two-way street, and must be a two-way street.
“Going one way, the Navy offers peace and security. Going the other, the people offer support and contribution.
Only when the street is a properly mutual two-way exchange between the Navy and the citizens can this bargain,
this contract, deliver what it needs to.”
http://www.sldinfo.com/remembering-the-battle-of-the-coral-sea-and-building-towards-the-future/
The Challenge of Shaping Future Capabilities Informing the Evolving
Force: The Perspective of Air Commodore Chipman
I first met Air Commodore Chipman when he was leading the initial Plan Jericho movement. He now has
become Director General of Capability Planning in the RAAF and is now faced with the challenge of infusing
the forward thinking represented by Plan Jericho into actual capabilities. And doing so clearly is about
shaping the evolving force into a more integrated direction.
http://www.sldinfo.com/the-co-directors-of-plan-jericho-group-captain-rob-chipman-and-group-captain-jake-
campbell-discuss-the-way-ahead-for-the-raaf/
Plan Jericho is a compass not a road map; but now is working the challenge of shaping programs to move
down the direction where the compass is providing some guidance.
And it is clearly not easy. Notably, with the RAAF introducing new platforms across the board, weaving those
into a comprehensive capability, let alone an integrated one, is very challenging.
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