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The ADC Forge Media channel delivers authoritative audio content in support of professional military education and development. A continuously evolving library of high-quality insights, analyses and expert perspectives tailored for defence professionals.

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Sep 5, 2025 · 37 min
Audio Book | Australia’s Military Strategic Challenges – Close to Home
Since the enhanced trilateral security partnership of 16 September 2021, the Australian Government has considered its strategic environment to have permanently changed.
Sep 5, 2025 · 24 min
Audio Book | Opposing Inherent Immorality in Autonomous Weapons Systems
Every major power is investing in the development of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. Now, before they are ready for deployment, is the time to form an ethical understanding that can guide the creation of laws to fairly and humanely regulate their use.
Sep 5, 2025 · 26 min
Audio Book | Changes in warfare in the 16th and 17th centuries - a ‘military revolution’?
The 16th and 17th century was a period of significant change in the character of war. The drivers accounting for these changes were not all based in military reforms, despite Western Europe being engaged almost continuously in war. While tactical applications is interesting, it was the beginnings of some profound changes in the development of warfare; the professional military, the standing army, scale of warfare and subsequent emergence of the state (Crown) owning the monopoly on violence and the arrival of proper naval forces.
Sep 5, 2025 · 8 min
Audio Book | Needless anxiety over China will only make it true
Australians need to rapidly reassess their China-Taiwan calculus, because as it stands we are overstating our global importance and understating realities.

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Episodes 24

Audio Book | Australia’s Military Strategic Challenges – Close to Home

Audio Book | Opposing Inherent Immorality in Autonomous Weapons Systems

Audio Book | Changes in warfare in the 16th and 17th centuries - a ‘military revolution’?

Audio Book | Needless anxiety over China will only make it true