Episode 12: Competitive Strategy: Beyond the Military and Beyond the Nation

Mick is an experienced strategist, having worked at high levels in this capacity in the Australian and US militaries. During his career, he commanded at platoon, squadron, regiment, task force and brigade levels in the Australian Army. His last position was that of Commander of the Australian Defence College in Canberra.

A graduate of the Australian Defence Force School of Languages (language speciality: Bahasa Indonesia), Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the USMC Command and Staff College and School of Advanced Warfighting, he is also a passionate advocate of professional education and lifelong learning.

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Mick Ryan, War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-first Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, Naval Institute Press, 2022.

Anne-Marie Grisogono, Conference Paper: Design as a Strategy for Dealing with Complexity, International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, January 2011, at Design as a Strategy for Dealing with Complexity

Lawrence Freedman, Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine, Oxford University Press, 2022. 

Beatrice Heuser, War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices, Oxford University Press, 2022.

Frank Hoffman, Mars Adapting: Military Change During War (Transforming War), Naval Institute Press, 2021.