Details
Date
2026
Publication: Geddes Papers
The Geddes Papers 2025 is a collection of the best student essays and case studies from the 2025 intake of the Australian Command and Staff Course (ACSC) Military Art Program.
For the first time, members of the ACSC Capability Program contributed to the Geddes Papers. These papers offer insights into the technical and integration requirements that complement the ACSC Military Art Program, by translating operating concepts and strategic intent into practical capability outcomes.
The collection represents a variety of opinions from the Australian War College, the ACSC Military Art Program and the ACSC Capability Program.
Content
| Article title | Article author |
|---|---|
| The Prudent and the Precarious: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Tripolar Hedging Strategy | |
| Through what mechanisms and under what conditions does the 1st (Australian) Division contribute to Australia’s deterrence-by-denial strategy? | |
| A Case for Hybrid Counter-AI: How Australia Can Out-think the Algorithms | |
| Balancing on the Nuclear Knife- Edge: Strategic Triggers for a Nuclearised Republic of Korea and Australian Policy Options to Keep It Non-Nuclear | |
| Capability Business Case: Littoral Combat Vehicle (LCV) Program | |
| Strategy Case Study 1 – New Plan, Same Pattern: Australian Grand Strategy Since 2020 | |
| Strategy Case Study 2 – Has Australia developed a distinct Grand Strategy since 2020? | |
| Strategy Case Study 3 – How well do the NDS and the IIP develop force structure appropriate to a strategy of deterrence by denial? | |
| Operational Planning Essay 1 – Compare the DMPP with an operational planning process from another military (US Joint Planning Process) | |
| Operational Planning Essay 2 – Discuss the challenges of applying DMPP to campaigns characterised by “unconventional campaigns” What adaptations or complementary approaches could improve its effectiveness in such contexts? | |
| Operational Planning Essay 3 – Critically assess the utility of the DMPP in planning contemporary multi-domain operations |