Publications
Welcome to the Australian Defence College publications website. ADC publications are produced on behalf of the Commander ADC, Principal Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (CDSS) and Commandant Australian Command and Staff College (ACSC) to foster research on important national and international defence and security matters.
Views expressed in the research available from this site are solely those of the individual authors. They are not necessarily those of their governments and should not be considered as the official endorsement of factual accuracy, opinion, conclusion or recommendation of those governments or departments. They should be construed only as the author's own personal opinion.
Transforming Defence Education and Training
This document provides the over-arching strategic guidance for the Australian Defence College (ADC). It outlines organisational reforms underway within ADC, and key associated changes to the way that we are thinking about Defence education and training as we respond to broader strategic imperatives guiding Defence.
Planning Guidance
Building on the strategic framework set by Transforming Defence Education and Training, this document provides the context and the structure within which transformation of Defence learning will unfold. It identifies the business model, learning strategy and supporting efforts which are shaping our new approach, and that will form the basis of ADC's trajectory over the coming months and years.
ADF Journal
The Australian Defence Force Journal (ADFJ) is published as the Journal of the Australian Profession of Arms. The journal aims to promote discussion and understanding on a range of defence related topics and issues. Contributions are sought from members of the Australian Defence Organisation.
Shedden Papers
The Shedden Papers are a collection of selected research papers by course members and guest presenters at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies. The Shedden Papers are published bi-annually.
Strategic Management Papers
The Strategic Management Papers are selected essays discussing management practice and its applicability to higher management within defence and other government agencies.
Geddes Papers
The Geddes Papers are a collection of selected research papers by course members of the Australian Command and Staff College. The Geddes Papers are published annually.
Occasional Series
The Occasional Series is intended to provide specialist consideration of contemporary subjects exercising the ADO and the wider community and to contribute to debate on those subjects.
Executive Series ADDP 00.6
Leadership in the Australian Defence Force
The ADDP 00.6 is pitched at the philosophical and high-application level, and ADFP at the application and procedural level.
Monograph Series
The Monograph Series publishes selected works of course members from the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies and the Australian Command and Staff College.
