Australia's joint approach: past, present and future

Publication: Joint Studies Paper Series

Since the 1970s, the Australian Defence Force has taken an increasingly joint approach to the planning and conduct of operations, the management of the current force and the design of the future force.

This paper reviews that joint approach, identifying underlying key joint principles. It recommends that strategic joint (J) staff arrangements be formally defined to provide clarity for operations and greater effectiveness for joint management of the current force. It supports the recent establishment of a permanent joint force design team, but emphasises that the team will need to be well-resourced, with its leader as the Strategic J8, and supported by a Defence joint force design culture.

Authors

Tim McKenna
Tim McKay

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