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Land Warfare series. By the mid-1990s, the GOC Training
Command, Major General Michael Keating, expressed reservations
over the continuing relevance of the MLW series, which was
widely seen as being limited by its corps orientation. The latter was
an obstacle to developing timely and relevant Army doctrine from
the RTA trials, and from a combined-arms and joint-services
perspective. 234
During 1996-97 Major General Keating took several important
decisions in an effort to modernise Army doctrine. First, the Army
developed a new military appreciation process (MAP), with an
emphasis on interoperability in staff processes. 235 Second, in
mid-1997, a Doctrine Steering Group (DSG) was created to provide
improved guidance for the development, production and validation
of Army doctrine. The DSG included representatives from Army
Headquarters, Training Command, Land Command, Defence Force
Headquarters and the ADF Warfare Centre. 236
Third, in December 1997, in order to ensure that doctrine and force
structure were on converging paths, the Army Doctrine Centre
became the Doctrine Wing of a new Combined Arms Training and
Development Centre (CATDC), with a Centre for Army Lessons
(CAL) to capture data. Fourth, a comprehensive list of Army
Tactical Tasks (ATT) aimed at integrating the imperatives of force
development and training with doctrine was approved in November
1997. 237 Fifth and finally, the CATDC was to relocate from Sydney
to Puckapunyal and to focus on enhancing the capability
development process within the Army. 238 By early 1999, through
a merger of the CATDC’s Doctrine Wing and the Capability
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Doctrine Status and Development 1996, p. 7, para. 14.
Ibid., pp. 16–17, paras 64–7.
Doctrine Status and Development 1998, p. 9, paras 28–9.
Australian Army, List of Army Tactical Tasks, Headquarters Training
Command, Sydney, 24 November 1997, Initial Draft.
Doctrine Status and Development 1999, pp. 1–2, paras 2–3; p. 11,
para. 36.