LEADER 03420 am 22005413u 450 001 9910141942603321 005 20230621135411.0 010 $a1-921313-55-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000409991 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000671461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12243739 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000671461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10630916 035 $a(PQKB)10696775 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4816258 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000409991 100 $a20170316h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHistory as policy $eframing the debate on the future of Australia's defence policy /$fedited by Ron Huisken and Meredith Thatcher 210 1$aCanberra, Australia :$cANU E Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (218 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCanberra Papers on Strategy and Defence 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe fortieth anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre?s founding provided the opportunity to assemble many of Australia?s leading analysts and commentators to review some of the more significant issues that should define Australian defence policy. In the first 20 years after its establishment, SDSC scholars played a prominent role in shaping the ideas and aspirations that eventually found official expression in the 1987 Defence of Australia White Paper. This policy sustained a coherent balance between strategy, force structure and budgets for well over a decade. In recent years, however, the cumulative effects of the end of the Cold War and watershed events like the East Timor experience; the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., in September 2001; the Bali bombings in October 2002; and the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 have fractured the former consensus on defence policy. These developments have eroded acceptance of the core judgements underpinning defence policy. This has led to a more tenuous connection between some recent major equipment acquisitions and declared policy. The unravelling of the consensus on the ?defence of Australia? policy means that we must again undertake a balanced, long-term assessment of the nature of Australia?s strategic interests. Only by doing so can we determine the kinds of armed forces that would contribute most effectively to protecting those interests. The papers collected in this volume are not informed by a common view of where Australia should focus its defence policy, but all address themes that should figure prominently in this difficult but essential task. 410 0$aCanberra papers on strategy and defence. 606 $aNational security$zAustralia 607 $aAustralia$xMilitary policy 607 $aAustralia$xStrategic aspects 607 $aAustralia$xForeign relations 607 $aAustralia$xDefenses 615 0$aNational security 676 $a355.03350994 702 $aHuisken$b Ronald 702 $aThatcher$b Meredith 712 02$aAustralian National University.$bStrategic and Defence Studies Centre. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910141942603321 996 $aHistory as policy$92194714 997 $aUNINA