A networked army: the Australian Military Forces and the other armies of the interwar British Commonwealth (1919-1939)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Australian Military Forces (AMF) of the interwar period was a networked institution. Between 1919 and 1939 AMF leadership developed, maintained, or extended interaction between their force (and its officers) and the other armies of the British Empire. These interactions formed sophisticated inter-army connections—pathways for liaison and the exchange of information in military developments—that facilitated cooperability in peace and war. Such linkages were grounded in structural ties, based on the mobilities of individuals, or reliant on the personal initiative of officers. Through such means the AMF was embedded within an imperial military structure that defended the empire, and which included the armies of Britain, British India, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. By examining the varied ways in which the AMF was connected to its empire counterparts in the interwar period this thesis corrects longstanding assumptions and stereotypes of that force, emphasising that this was not a time of intellectual or physical isolation from military developments occurring in other Commonwealth armies. Additionally, through the insights of the historiographical approach known as network theory (popular in imperial histories but rarely applied to the military context) this thesis demolishes the outmoded core-periphery model of the military structure of the interwar British Empire to reveal a pan-empire network of military interaction that involved each army in mutually beneficial information and communication flows. Utilising deep archival research on four continents, previously unexplored source material, and modern historiographic approaches, this thesis presents an innovative and original analysis of the AMF’s relationships with the other armies of the interwar British Empire, its place within an imperial military structure, and the inter-army connections that fostered Commonwealth military cooperability.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".