The Land Warfare Studies Centre maintains several conference programs. These conferences allow the LWSC to reach a broader audience than would otherwise be possible with the LWSC's seminar programs. The broader participation base allows the Centre to fulfil its chartered goals of public land warfare advocacy as well as improving the quality of the Army's professional and intellectual debate by enabling access to the views and ideas of those only casually related to Army and broader defence debates.

Chief of Army's Conference

The Chief of Army's Conference (previously the Army Land Warfare Conference) is held biennially, and has been designed as an opportunity to solicit broad community input into issues of great importance facing the Army. The attendance at these conferences is kept deliberatly broad, and the public is welcome to attend. This allows the LWSC access to as broad a range of input into the army's professional debate as possible, and enables those across disciplinary of institutional borders to contribute.

Chief of Army's Conference 2007:
No Chief of Army's Conference was held due to Australia's hosting of the PACC/PAMS conferences.

Chief of Army's Conference 2005:
Facing Complexity: New Dimensions in Strategy and Warfighting in the 21st Century

The 2005 Chief of Army's Conference drew many important speakers and delegates. These included Major General Jonathan Bailey, Dr Stephen Biddle, Professor Robyn Lim, and Colonel Thomas X. Hammes. The Conference dinner speaker was His Excellency Michael Jeffery, the Governor General of Australia.

The conference proceedings are published as Asymmetry and Complexity, available from the LWSC.

Chief of Army's Conference 2003:
Land Forces, Ways in Warfare and Future Coalition Operations
The 2003 Chief of Army's Conference, the first held under the new name, examined Land Forces, Ways in Warfare and Future Coalition Operations. Speakers included LtGen Paul Van Riper (USMC), Dr Christopher Coker (LSE), Professor Williamson Murray from the Institute of Defense Analysis, Professor Anthony Cordesman, MAJGEN Robin Brims (UK MoD), and LtCol Antulio Echevarria II from the US Army War College.

No proceedings were produced.

Army Land Warfare Conference 2001:
Future Armies, Future Challenges: Land Warfare in the Information Age
The 2001 Land Warfare Conference was another resounding success, taking as its theme Future Armies, Future Challenges: Land Warfare in the Information Age. Conducted in early October, just a few weeks after the September 11 tragedy, it was extremely well attended, with an impressive ensemble of international and Australian presenters. Copies of the conference papers are available through Co-Op bookshops, Allen & Unwin, or direct from the LWSC.

Army Land Warfare Conference 1999:
The Human Face of Warfare: Past, Present and Future
The theme of the 1999 Land Warfare Conference was The Human Face of Warfare: Past, Present and Future, and culminated in the publication of a monograph titled The Human Face of Warfare: Killing, Fear and Chaos in Battle, edited by Michael Evans and Alan Ryan, and published by Allen & Unwin in October 2000.

Chief of Army's Exercise

The Chief of Army's exercise is also held biennially in the years alternative to the Chief of Army's Conference. This exercise is not necessarily open to the public, and draws together senior personnel from across the Army to allow them to debate crucial issues for Army and the profession of arms, and to offer on these topics their views, opinions and the unique insights that their individual positions within the organisation afford them. Due to the Army-internal nature of the Chief of Army's Exercise, no proceedings, program or content is usually published by the LWSC.