Towards 2000: Directions for Australia's Military Strategy

Abstract

Since the Australian withdrawal from Vietnam in 1972 Australian military strategy and force development has lacked coherent direction. Although a Government White Paper on defence which was released in 1976--and is still effectively current--proposed that Australia's perceived strategic circumstances necessitated greater self-reliance and operational self-sufficiency, there being no identifiable military threat little motivation has existed for successive governments to translate these strategic objectives into coherent defence policy. The author argues that the ongoing hiatus is avoidable because there are inherent in Australia's strategic environment enduring features which, if utilized, provide the focus that is essential to the development of Australias military strategy and force structure in peacetime. Being founded upon enduring features the resulting defence posture will meet the longterm national security requirements of the defence-of-Australia doctrine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159483

Entities

People

  • Richard N. Kelloway

Organizations

  • Air War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
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  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Air Force
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  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
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  • Military History
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  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design