Kokoda Papers #5: Firepower to Win: Australian Defence Force Joint Fires in 2020 (2007) By Alan Titheridge, Gary Waters, Ross Babbage
 
The Australian Defence Force’s future combat success will depend on an effective ‘Joint Fires’ capability. Joint Fires is demanding and complicated as it requires close inter-service coordination, is often time-sensitive, usually entails the delivery of lethal force, and its consequences can be far-reaching. Significant progress has been made in recent years in developing both an integrated system and Joint Terminal Attack Controllers to coordinate Joint Fires in forwarding locations; however, a great deal remains to be done.

This Kokoda Paper investigates the main issues that the Australian Defence Force should be considering as it develops its Joint Fires capability for 2020. This Paper recommends developing future Joint Fires as a system, leveraging an advanced synthetic environment for training and exercising, strengthening the communications network, striving for information and decision superiority, improving the adaptability and flexibility of command and control, adopting a national effects-based approach, and becoming international leaders in Joint Fires’ education and training.
 
Soft Cover
54 pages
In good condition