SPOTLIGHT: The nature of modern warfare, with MAJGEN (ret’d) Mick Ryan, and Systematic representatives David Horton and Robert Wilson

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By: Robyn Tongol
SPOTLIGHT: The nature of modern warfare, with MAJGEN (ret’d) Mick Ryan, and Systematic representatives David Horton and Robert Wilson

In this episode of the Defence Connect Podcast, Major General (ret’d) Mick Ryan, David Horton (vice president, Asia-Pacific at Systematic) and Robert Wilson (business development manager, Asia-Pacific at Systematic), join editor of Defence Connect Liam Garman to discuss how the Australian Defence Force (ADF) can strengthen its posture amid changes to the threat environment.

In this episode of the Defence Connect Podcast, Major General (ret’d) Mick Ryan, David Horton (vice president, Asia-Pacific at Systematic) and Robert Wilson (business development manager, Asia-Pacific at Systematic), join editor of Defence Connect Liam Garman to discuss how the Australian Defence Force (ADF) can strengthen its posture amid changes to the threat environment.

 

Key topics of the conversation include:

  • Reflections on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, with a specific focus on how the ADF can learn from Ukraine’s resistance to optimise its warfighting posture.
  • Systematics’ all-domain offering and how it can provide the ADF with a critical advantage on the battlefield.
  • The power of a technologically and socially networked military.
  • The nature, importance, and role of modern military alliances.
  • Building Australia’s self-sufficiency and reducing dependence on the global supply chain.
  • Investing in distributed lethality v large-scale, platform-oriented capability.
  • The future of warfare.

Enjoy the podcast,
The Defence Connect Team

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Episode 11: PODCAST: From hardware to algorithms – how Defence is embedding AI into warfare without surrendering human accountability
Episode 10: CONTESTED GROUND: Weak, vulnerable, backwater – Australia’s choice between strategic camps and managed decline
Episode 9: PODCAST: Undersea dominance – Australia charts the maritime future through autonomous systems and AUKUS innovation
Episode 8: PODCAST: Australian Army Cadets pathways, submarine industry growth and Australia’s fuel security
Episode 7: CONTESTED GROUND: The blind faith factor – why Australians trust an ADF they don’t understand
Episode 6: PODCAST: Defence preparedness, artificial intelligence productivity, and Australian industrial resilience
Episode 5: CONTESTED GROUND: Shots fired! Chinese missile test shatters Australia’s ‘fog of peace’, with Mike Pezzullo
Episode 4: SPOTLIGHT: Counter-drone innovation, directed energy and delivering operational outcomes, with EOS Defence Systems’ Lee Kormany
Episode 3: PODCAST: Strengthening security ties, Fiji defence pact and Australia’s counter-drone push
Episode 2: CONTESTED GROUND: Lessons from the UK in political polarisation, generational dislocation and intergenerational warfare, with Ben Dullroy, Bravo Delta Advisory