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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

We are not going to be an effective force unless our army and navy joins the RAAF on that fifth-generation
journey.

And last April I met with then Air Commodore Roberton at Amberly Airbase and he provided the perfect
conclusion for this report:

“We are taking a kill web approach and working to integrate the non-kinetic into the force.

“We have to shape a cultural revolution.

“We need to get away from being comfortable with knowing what contribution my platform can make to the
fight in very narrow terms.

“With the evolving concepts of operations, we don’t really care where the weapon comes from; we don’t
really care how the information is passed.

“We need to have a framework where that’s devolved to the lowest effective level and we achieve it as a
team.

“That’s kinetic and non-kinetic effects. That’s with regard to all different sorts of platforms.

“The faster you take a concept and a platform and weapons system and focus on its impact or effect at the
tactical level, then the smart young women and men in our force will find a way to innovate in a way that
we’ve never seen before.”

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