History As Policy: Framing the Debate on the Future of Australia's Defence Polic

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The unravelling of the consensus on the 'defence of Australia' policy means that we must again undertake a balanced, long-term assessment of the nature of Australia's strategic interests. Only by doing so can we determine the kinds of armed forces that would contribute most effectively to protecting those interests.

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The fortieth anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre's founding provided the opportunity to assemble many of Australia's leading analysts and commentators to review some of the more significant issues that should define Australian defence policy.In the first 20 years after its establishment, SDSC scholars played a prominent role in shaping the ideas and aspirations that eventually found official expression in the 1987 Defence of Australia White Paper. This policy sustained a coherent balance between strategy, force structure and budgets for well over a decade. In recent years, however, the cumulative effects of the end of the Cold War and watershed events like the East Timor experience; the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., in September 2001; the Bali bombings in October 2002; and the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 have fractured the former consensus on defence policy. These developments have eroded acceptance of the core judgements underpinning defence policy. This has led to a more tenuous connection between some recent major equipment acquisitions and declared policy.The unravelling of the consensus on the 'defence of Australia' policy means that we must again undertake a balanced, long-term assessment of the nature of Australia's strategic interests. Only by doing so can we determine the kinds of armed forces that would contribute most effectively to protecting those interests. The papers collected in this volume are not informed by a common view of where Australia should focus its defence policy, but all address themes that should figure prominently in this difficult but essential task.

Table of Contents

Self-Reliant Defence: The First CutThe Self-Reliant Defence of Australia: The History of an IdeaGlobal IssuesGlobal Change and Strategic PrioritiesRestoring Utility to Armed Force in the 21st CenturyThe Rise of China: History as PolicyWhither the United States and Unipolarity?Regional IssuesThe 'Arc of Instability': The History of an IdeaJihadism and 'The Battle of Ideas' in Indonesia: Critiquing Australian CounterterrorismSecurity Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific RegionAustralian Strategic and Defence IssuesThe Challenge of Coherence: Strategic Guidance, Capability, and BudgetsThe Higher Command Structure for Joint ADF OperationsFour Decades of the Defence of Australia: Reflections on Australian Defence Policy over the Past 40 Years

Details ISBN1921313552 Author Ronald Huisken ISBN-10 1921313552 ISBN-13 9781921313554 Format Paperback Subtitle Framing the Debate on the Future of Australia's Defence Policy Country of Publication Australia DEWEY 355.03350994 Place of Publication Canberra Publisher ANU Press Imprint ANU Press Pages 226 Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-01-01 Short Title History As Policy Language English Series Number 167 Illustrations 1 Bibliography; 1 Index AU Release Date 2016-01-01 NZ Release Date 2016-01-01 Series Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) Alternative 9781921313561 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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