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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Between its inception in 1901 and the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the Australian
Army (or the Commonwealth Military Forces as they were then known) underwent two
periods of extensive reform aimed at creating a modern effective force out of what had been
inherited from the colonial governments. In both instances the reforms were ambitious
and bold, but they were also severely troubled by the limitations imposed by government,
insufficient resources and a fundamental problem of creating an army from an almost entirely
part-time soldiery. This article was originally presented as a paper at the Chief of Army
Military History Conference in September 2011. It was first published in the proceedings of
that conference and is reproduced courtesy of the Australian Army History Unit.
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