What has often been missing in Defence acquisition is not technical expertise but the willingness to admit from the outset, ‘This is what we do not yet know.’ Instead, program optimism and political expectations create incentives to hide uncertainty.

Leaders need a new place to begin their analysis of the reform problem.

The total Defence Enterprise workforce is the delicate system at the heart of Defence capability. There’s no value in elevating one part to the exclusion or diminution of the others. If one fails, it all fails.

People, culture, and behaviour remain the core risk in cyber security assessments and post-incident analyses. How well do we treat the risk of human behaviour in cyber security?