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Australian Army training progresses from first DATE

20th March 2019 - 15:45 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Hong Kong

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Australia is adopting a new training approach with the introduction of the Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE), a concept and name that the US Army introduced around a decade ago, and which was subsequently adopted by both Canada and the UK.

The supposition of DATE is that the Australian Army will be able to train against a dynamic and free-thinking enemy, with DATE becoming the army’s standardised training system aligned with a multinational framework.

A spokesperson from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) told Shephard: ‘The Decisive Action Training Environment is a modernisation initiative by the Australian Army to improve

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