Measurement of Combat Stress in the Field: A Product Development Study

摘要

The Australian Defence Force has long maintained a technology gap over its regional neighbours. This has traditionally been in the area of principal items of equipment, the F111 aircraft, COLLINS class submarines, surveillance equipment, and so on. The strength of the Asian economies over the past two decades, and the concomitant growth in military spending in the region, (particularly on principal items) has seen this gap diminish. One area that the Australian Army has traditionally seen as a comparative strength has been in the skills and training of the individual soldier. In the early nineties, however, a need was perceived to improve the individual combat capability of the infantry soldier in order to improve the combat capability of the Army as a whole. This led to the creation of Project WUNDURRA (an aboriginal word meaning 'warrior'), which subsequently became known as Project LAND125 (Soldier Combat System Enhancement Study).