Mitchell McAlister

Besides its gross unsuitability, no man (or woman) with any dignity, serving as a gunner, would a...

Note: This article is part of a series. You can read part one and part two here. PMSCs have trans...

The large-scale employment of private military security companies has been criticised for lacking...

By the very nature of the services they provide, private military security companies thrive in no...

Terrorism does not adhere to geographical boundaries and can not be considered an issue that is t...

Being an authentic leader means first and foremost that your style reflects who you are, not what...

History is littered with examples of people who have been labeled “leaders,” but what...

This latest attack highlights how ISIS is effectively recruiting vulnerable individuals to carry ...

Rather than trying to oust regimes that don’t “conform” to Western ideals, such as the Assa...

Isolationism as a foreign policy is fraught with problems. We have never shied away from our glob...

Regardless of how much time passes, we must maintain our commitment to this fight and never forge...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is essentially reserving the majority of Australian refugee intake for...

In the final installment of this article series, I’d like to share some of the things I have bo...

Successfully planning through foresight is essential in creating the necessary atmospherics for e...

The federal government confirmed that a number of Australian Defence Force (ADF) members had been...

SAS Captain Andrew Hastie has proven himself on the battlefield and is now putting himself out th...

Australia’s most elite members of the military are often overqualified when compared to civ...

An operator from an SF unit can be on the back side of a decade-long military career, yet may str...

Gun Control Australia (GCA), has its sights (obviously the metaphorical kind) set on a new ‘mas...

With the right guidance, we can hopefully start to take back the vocabulary in which terrorism is...