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Four Key Defence Capability Challenges
Author: Ross Babbage
Volume 3, Number 3 (August 2007), pp. 79-90.
Abstract
The most pressing defence capability challenges that will confront the new Australian Government will not concern the acquisition of new equipments or technologies. They will rather be those of sustaining greatly increased defence expenditure, recruiting and retaining sufficient high quality personnel, expanding the deployable security ‘tool kit’ by developing ways of involving many non-military organisations in effective nation-building operations alongside the ADF overseas and strengthening public willpower to sustain demanding defence operations abroad.
About the Author
Ross Babbage is Chairman of the Kokoda Foundation. He is also Managing Director of Strategy International (ACT) Pty Ltd, a defence consulting and education service delivery organisation. In addition, Professor Babbage is a Council Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, a member of the Defence Minister’s Defence and National Security Advisory Council and an Adjunct Professor in strategic and defence studies at the Australian National University. Professor Babbage has held senior positions in the Australian Department of Defence, in the Office of National Assessments, in Australian industry and at the Australian National University. rbabbage@connect.net.au.
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