The Digger Net Podcast which is all about sharing insights and exploring topics that impact soldiers work in the land domain. The host is former combat engineer and paralympic gold medalist Curtis McGrath, OAM. In this first episode, he interviews Major Sam Jones. A full-time Army Psychologist reservist who focuses on human performance, mental health, and fatigue management. He has been deployed through Rotary Wing Group and never had a conversation about fatigue where the people in the room are not tired. So what is fatigue? How does it affect our work – analysis, threat assessment, memory, and communication? How does it impact the individual and the military in general?

"Episode 5 of the Adapting Army podcast features Army’s highest-ranking soldier, Army Regimental Sergeant-Major, Warrant Officer Kim Felmingham who has long championed the importance of an innovation culture among Army. We are also joined by Jasmine Kastaniotis from the Army Makerspace program. Jasmine is leading Army’s uptake of learning-by-doing and educating using innovative approaches, creative thinking, and agile methodologies.

During the conversation, the pair discuss what innovation means to Army, uncover what stifles innovation, and explore the creative approaches and concepts emerging from Army MakerSpace."

"Episode 4 of the Adapting Army podcast features three of Australia’s leading quantum technologists – Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Doherty, Professor Brant Gibson and Dr Richard Taylor.

Marcus leads Army’s exploration of quantum technology, is an esteemed senior fellow at the Australian National University and is the co-founder of Quantum Brilliance... as well as being an Army officer. Marcus has brought a huge depth of knowledge to Army and pioneered the Quantum Technology Challenge and Quantum Next Generation Challenge series, supporting partnerships between sovereign quantum technologists and Army.

Professor Brant Gibson is currently in the joint roles of Assistant Associate Dean (Physics, RMIT University), Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and Deputy Director of the Sir Lawrence Wackett Centre for Defence at RMIT University.

Dr Richard Taylor is an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics within the Queensland University of Technology. His research is focused on Applied Superconductivity in the fields of power, communications and instrumentation.

During the conversation, we explore how Army and academia are collaborating to give Army the edge it needs in the critically important field of quantum technology."

"Episode 3 of the Adapting Army podcast features Colonel Jennifer Harris, who is regarded as one of Army’s agents of change. Jen has led a diverse career and is currently working in Army’s Land Capability Division, and has held previous roles in the total workforce system, as well as a project management position at Questacon. One common thread between these roles is the demand for change.

We are also joined by Dr Bec Jackson. In her work as a psychologist and leadership development practitioner, Bec has successfully coached hundreds of leaders in the military, government, and public space to enhance and develop their capacity, commitment, and character to lead their teams and organisations into the future.

The conversation delves into the challenges of change, sharing insights of what good leadership looks like, whether change management is really that important, and how optimism may be more valuable to an organisation than we realise."

Episode 2 of the ‘Adapting Army’ podcast features Lieutenant Colonel Adam Hepworth and Emily Hughes. They discuss Artificial Intelligence and its use case for Army, now and in the future.

Episode 1 of the ‘Adapting Army’ podcast features Colonel Robin Smith, who is leading Army's exploration of emerging and disruptive technologies. As a young 18-year-old, Robin joined the British Army in 1987 as an electrical technician. After 30-years of service, Robin transferred to the Australian Army into Future Land Warfare branch where he wrote Army's first strategy on robotic and autonomous systems, known as the RAS Strategy. The Strategy was published in 2018 and supported the formation of an exploration and implementation office within the Australian Army. Five years on, Robin and his team have supported a number of projects across robotics and autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, alternative power and energy, quantum technology and innovation culture.

"Vedran ‘Maz’ Maslic is the host of ‘The Voices Of War’. In this episode, Maz interviews Arne Bård Dalhaugh is a retired three-star Norwegian Army officer, who also served as a senior officer in NATO and, more-recently, as a senior leader at the OSCE in Ukraine. Also, Wolfgang Sporrer is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Hertie School in Berlin and was recently the head of the Human Dimension Department of the OSCE in Ukraine.

They discuss the invasion, current crisis, and possible future outcomes. Some of the topics covered are: the reason behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's ultimate invasion, narrative control in Russia, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his communication skills."

Vedran ‘Maz’ Maslic is the host of ‘The Voices Of War’. In this episode, Maz interviews Mark Ascough. Brigadier Mark Ascough is the current Director General of Intelligence at Headquarters Joint Operations Command of the Australian Defence Force.

Brigadier Ascough joined me to talk about all things intelligence and how he sees the field evolve into the future. Some of the things we covered are: Mark's background and entry into the Army, life as the J2, HQJOC, the role of 'Intelligence', and impact of the 'Five Mores'. Touching on the challenges for future intelligence professionals, the dangers of bias and moral courage in intelligence analysis. Discussing how to train for ethical challenges and the importance of understanding cultures. When it comes to the Australian intelligence community – is there too much or not enough power?

Vedran ‘Maz’ Maslic is the host of ‘The Voices Of War’. In this episode, Maz interviews Dejan Mujkanovic. An Australian Army officer with 19 years of military experience. He has completed several tours of Afghanistan and also deployed to East Timor. He was born in Bosnia in 1980 and experienced the full brunt of the civil war in the 90’s. His hometown of Prijedor made global news due to the campaign of ethnic cleansing committed by the Bosnian Serb forces seeking to forcefully remove the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat populations from the area. As a result of these crimes, many of Dejan’s extended family members were lost in concentration camps, which, sadly, includes his father Senad Mujkanovic who was killed in the Omarska concentration camp in 1992. In the ensuing chaos, Dejan was separated from his mother and his siblings, and they have lived apart ever since. During his journey, he was forced to spend over two years in various refugee camps in Croatia and Austria and in late 1995, he was fortunate to settle in Australia with his grandmother. Now, 25 years later, Dejan is married and a proud father to his son.

Some of the topics covered are: his reason for joining the Army, how the war in Bosnia started for him, and what good soldiering looks like.

"Vedran ‘Maz’ Maslic is the host of ‘The Voices Of War’. In this episode, Maz interviews Dr Mike Martin and retired Lieutenant General Arne Bård Dalhaug. Both have provided regular commentary on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in regular and social media.

Mike is a former British Army Officer who subsequently completed his PhD studying war and conflict. He has published a number of books, including ‘An Intimate War’, still one of the go-to books on understanding Afghanistan, as well as ‘Why We Fight’, a book that explores root causes of human conflict and war.

Arne is a retired three-star general who was previously the Deputy Chief of Norwegian Armed Forces, served as the Norwegian Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee, and was the Commandant of the NATO Defense College. After retiring from the military, Arne served in a senior position for the OSCE in the non-government-controlled area in eastern Donbas in Ukraine.

Some of the topics covered are: the state of the Russian Army, the risk of nuclear war, and Ukrainian requirements to sustain combat operations."