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<strong>Five</strong> <strong>Challenges</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Infantry</strong><br />
3. Balancing the fighting <strong>for</strong>ce<br />
4. Employing LAND 400 – Combined Arms Fighting System<br />
5. Employing JOINT PROJECT 2048 – Enhanced Amphibious Capability.<br />
This article has proposed, in the context of adaptation and change, many<br />
questions <strong>for</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Infantry</strong>. Importantly, these questions are only a beginning.<br />
They may not be the right questions. They may not be complete questions. Or they<br />
may be questions that <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Infantry</strong> will address without significant learning and/<br />
or intellectual ef<strong>for</strong>t. Alternatively, perhaps <strong>Infantry</strong> may seek to explore comprehensive<br />
thinking on these questions and challenges in order to in<strong>for</strong>m the development<br />
of <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Infantry</strong>.<br />
There is no doubt that <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Infantry</strong>—fighting in complex human, physical and<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mational battlespaces, operating in a combined arms, Joint, whole-of-government<br />
context incorporating coalition, contractor and non-government organisations<br />
partners against adaptive, agile and lethal enemies—will need to adapt and change.<br />
Whatever rank or position held, the breadth, depth and range of this adaptation<br />
and change <strong>for</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Infantry</strong> is now firmly in the hands of <strong>Infantry</strong> personnel.<br />
Endnotes<br />
1 ‘Rifleman’, Defence Jobs website accessed 10 September 2009.<br />
2 Adaptive Campaigning – <strong>Army</strong>’s <strong>Future</strong> Land Operating Concept, Head<br />
Modernisation and Strategic Planning – <strong>Army</strong>, Department of Defence, Canberra,<br />
September 2009, p. xii; ‘What is the <strong>Australian</strong> Civilian Corps?’, AUSAID website,<br />
.<br />
3 Adaptive Campaigning, p. iv.<br />
4 This idea was generated by Lieutenant Colonel Chris Smith, Staff Officer Grade 1,<br />
<strong>Future</strong> Land Operating Concept, email to author 13 October 2009.<br />
5 FM 3-13 (FM 100-6) In<strong>for</strong>mation Operations: Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and<br />
Procedures, Department of Defence, November 2003, p. 1-5.<br />
6 Todd C Helmus, Christopher Paul and Russell W Glenn, Enlisting Madison Avenue,<br />
The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation,<br />
prepared <strong>for</strong> the United States Joint Forces Command, RAND National Research<br />
Institute, Santa Monica, 2007, p. xv.<br />
7 Ibid., p. 34.<br />
8 Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, Defence White Paper<br />
2009, p. 75.<br />
9 ‘Land Combat Vehicles’ in Defence Capability Plan 2009, (Public Version),<br />
Department of Defence, 2009, p. 17; ‘Acquisition Categorisation’ in Defence Capability<br />
Plan 2009, (Public Version), p. 6.<br />
<strong>Australian</strong> <strong>Army</strong> Journal • Volume VII, Number 1 • page 39
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