Arguably, we are again in the midst of adopting yet another essentially foreign concept-multi-domain operations (MDO)-as a de facto warfighting concept in the absence of an original and appropriate sovereign concept. The continuity of our military history and practice in this regard is relentless and depressing. Thirty years after Grey’s observation, we appear no closer to answering the question he posed. The quest to identify an Australian ‘way of war’ has spluttered along since federation. If the hallmarks of the American way of war are power and mobility, what can be said of the Australian variant? The armed forces of a minor power are not in a position to make major contributions to the development of the art of war and taking our cue from the British, in this as in so much else, the Australian Forces have thrown up no great theorist or systemiser. Multi-Domain Operations and Australia’s Joint Force-Risk and Opportunity
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