Podcast Episodes

Preparing for Combat in the Jungle

Season 1 Episode 120

This episode continues our Kokoda Campaign Podcast series.

This episode looks at Jungle Warfare Doctrine Development, with Dr Adrian Threlfall, an expert in how the Australian Army learned to learn…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

119 - Learning to learn: Jungle Warfare

Season 1 Episode 119

This episode continues our Kokoda Campaign Podcast series.

This episode looks at Jungle Warfare Doctrine Development, with Dr Adrian Threlfall, an expert in how the Australian Army learned to learn a…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

118 - Jungle Warfare Doctrine Development in the Australian Army

Season 1 Episode 118

We return to the fetid jungles of New Guinea and our Kokoda Campaign Podcast series, looking at the 53rd Battalion and it's combat performance at Isurava.

This episode is the start of a series lookin…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

117 - Lessons learnt from Drone combat in Ukraine

Season 1 Episode 117

This special episode is an interview with Sam Bendett from the Center for a New American Security and is an expert on UAS Combat between Ukraine and Russia.   This interview covers the lessons learn…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

116 - Air Power during the Kokoda and Milne Bay Campaigns.

Season 1 Episode 116

How did air power influence the Kokoda Campaign?  We review the employment of air power and compare it with the Milne Bay operation, where Air Power's effect was described as 'decisive' by both MAJGE…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

115 - No. 75 Squadron Leadership at Port Moresby

Season 1 Episode 115

What was RAAF Leadership like in No. 75 Squadron at Port Moresby.  We look at the career and Leadership of Squadron Leader John Jackson, a great RAAF pilot who lead from the front.  We look at the ta…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

114 - P40Es vs Zeroes - 75 Squadron and their 44 days at Port Moresby

Season 1 Episode 114

How did the P-40E compare against the Japanese Zero?  We look at how Australia was prepared for the war in the air over Port Moresby.  How well were the pilots prepared and how well was the squadro…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

113 - 75 Squadron and the Kokoda Campaign

It was 900 days from the declaration of war against Germany in 1939 to the bombing of Darwin.  When Darwin was bombed, there were no RAAF fighters to defend, and it was three weeks before Darwin was …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

112 - Combined Arms on the Kokoda Track

Season 1 Episode 112

This is Part 14 of our series looking at the Kokoda Campaign, focusing on the combat performance of battalions on the Kokoda Track and how the militia were prepared for combat at the tactical, operat…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

111 - Friendly Fire on the Kokoda Track

Season 1 Episode 111

This is Part 13 of our series looking at the Kokoda Campaign, focusing on the combat performance of the 53rd Battalion and how the militia were prepared for combat at the tactical, operational and st…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago