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Strategic Insights 48 - How to buy a submarine: Defining and building Australia's future fleet
Thursday, 29 October 2009

The Defence White paper announced that the future submarine fleet would consist of at least twelve submarines that would be able to perform a wide range of missions and carry a varied array of weapons and sensors. As described, the resultant boats are likely to be the largest, most complex and, at $3 billion each, t...

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Strategic Insights 47 - A long and winding road: Australia's role in building an Afghan National Army
Thursday, 27 August 2009

Right now the main focus of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) mission in Afghanistan is to raise the effectiveness of an Afghan National Army brigade so it can assume primary responsibility for security in Oruzgan Province, thereby creating the conditions for a withdrawal of Australian forces over the medium term. ...

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Strategic Insights 46 - North Korea: Sliding towards the abyss
Thursday, 5 March 2009

North Korea, marginalised as an issue in recent years by a host of other problems, looks likely to return to the forefront of international concern in 2009. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already noted that North Korea might be sliding—much earlier than expected&...

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Strategic Insights 45 - Strategic choices: Defending Australia in the 21st century
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
This Strategic Insight contains two papers that examine Australia’s ability to fund defence into the future and the costs of various future ADF force structures. The first paper, authored by Mark Thomson, explores defence spending into the future and finds that there is no fundamental reason preventing g...
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Strategic Insights 44 - Stepping up: Part-time forces and ADF capability
Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Armed forces around the world are making increasing use of part-time personnel to sustain operational deployments and to deliver levels of capability beyond those possible with their full-time forces.

The report, written by Andrew Davies and Hugh Smith, argues that some changes could help the ADF Reserve forc...

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