Strategic Guidelines for Enabling Research and Development to Support Australian Defence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategic Guidelines for Enabling Research and Development to Support Australian Defence write by Kenneth William Anderson. This book was released on 1996. Strategic Guidelines for Enabling Research and Development to Support Australian Defence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy
Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy write by Desmond Ball. This book was released on 2016-05-18. Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul Dibb AM has had an extraordinary career. He enjoys an international scholarly reputation of the highest order, while at the same time he has done much distinguished public service. He was a pioneer in moving back and forth between posts in government departments, notably the Department of Defence, and academia. He began as a student of Soviet economic geography, and then spent nearly two decades in Australian Defence intelligence, including service as Head of the National Assessments Staff (NAS) in the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) from 1974 to 1978, Deputy Director of JIO in 1978–80, Director of JIO in 1986–88, and Deputy Secretary of Defence (Strategy and Intelligence) in 1988–91, before becoming a Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at The Australian National University (where he is now an Emeritus Professor). He has been quite happy to engage in vigorous public debate about important and controversial strategic and defence issues, giving him a high public profile. The contributors include two former Chancellors of ANU, one a former Minister of Defence, and the other a former Secretary of the Department of Defence, a former Chief of the Defence Force (CDF), and other former senior officials, as well as academic specialists in geography, international relations, and strategic and defence studies. ‘This would be a high-quality set of essays for any edited volume, but for a festschrift – a genre that sometimes generates uneven collections – this is an exceptional assembly. The individual pieces are very good; together, they have coherence and power.’ – Professor Ian Hall, Professor of International Relations, Griffith University
Defence Planning and Uncertainty
Defence Planning and Uncertainty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defence Planning and Uncertainty write by Stephan Frühling. This book was released on 2014-04-24. Defence Planning and Uncertainty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises? This is a question that is more pertinent than ever, as countries across the Asia-Pacific are faced with the military and economic rise of China. Uncertainty is inherent in defence planning, but different types of uncertainty mean that countries need to approach decisions about military force structure in different ways. This book examines four different basic frameworks for defence planning, and demonstrates how states can make decisions coherently about the structure and posture of their defence forces despite strategic uncertainty. It draws on case studies from the United States, Australian and New Zealand, each of which developed key concepts for their particular circumstances and risk perception in Asia. Success as well as failure in developing coherent defence planning frameworks holds lessons for the United States and other countries as they consider how best to structure their military forces for the uncertain challenges of the future.
A National Asset
A National Asset - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A National Asset write by Desmond Ball. This book was released on 2016-08-26. A National Asset available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC). The Centre is Australia’s largest body of scholars dedicated to the analysis of the use of armed force in its political context and one of the earliest generation of post-World War II research institutions on strategic affairs. The book features chapters replete with stories of university politics, internal SDSC activities, cooperation among people with different social and political values, and conflicts between others, as well as the Centre’s public achievements. It also details the evolution of strategic studies in Australia and the contribution of academia and defence intellectuals to national defence policy.
Report by Paul Dibb to the Department of Defence on the Strategic Priorities for Australian Defence Industry
Report by Paul Dibb to the Department of Defence on the Strategic Priorities for Australian Defence Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Report by Paul Dibb to the Department of Defence on the Strategic Priorities for Australian Defence Industry write by Paul Dibb. This book was released on 1992. Report by Paul Dibb to the Department of Defence on the Strategic Priorities for Australian Defence Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Not much progress has been made in the last decade in developing strategic priorities for Australian defence Industry. Given the likelihood for continuing strict financial guidance for Defence, the need for clearer strategic priorities to guide future industry investment is imperative. There is a need now to translate longer-term defence planning into more precise industry objectives to produce authoritative guidance on defence requirements and on measures to encourage participation by Australian industry, consistent with Government's policy of self-reliance for defence.
