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The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua. It was primarily a land battle, between the Japanese South Seas Detachment under Major General Tomitarō Horii and Australian land forces. The Japanese objective was to seize Port Moresby by an overland advance from the north coast, following the Kokoda Track over the mountains of the Owen Stanley Range, as part of a strategy to isolate Australia from the United States.

The Australian military historian David Horner has written an excellent book about the early stages of the Papua campaign, including the fighting over the Kokoda track. My question is how could the Australians have improved their ability to fight over the Kokoda track?

One that readily stands out would be providing a greater amount of training on jungle warfare for the militia forces and, the other being the introduction of jungle greens earlier. The exercises could also lead the CMF and in time the AIF to modify their table of organisation and equipment to reflect the realities of jungle warfare.
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